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Jack-a-Boy
by
"We are three very different people, you, and that lonely woman down there, and I," the Professor was saying, "yet we seemed rather alike tonight. Perhaps Pater was right, and it is the revelation of beauty which is to be our redemption, after all. Whenever it comes, as many as see it, choose it, just as you and she and I chose him. "
But I was thinking how the revelation of the greatest Revealer drew men together. How the fishermen left their nets, without questioning, to follow Him; and how Nicodemus, who thought himself learned, came to Him secretly by night, and Mary, of Magdala, at the public feast, wiped his feet with her hair.