Christian fiction; Wingfold, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
The highest property, as Dante tells us, increases to each by the
sharing of it with others. But the common mind does not care for such
property. Was not the blue, uplifted, hoping sky, that spoke to the sky
inside Richard--was not that sir Wilton's? Yes, indeed; for were it not
sir Wilton's, it could not be Richard's. But sir Wilton did not claim
it, because he did not care for it, heard no sound of the speech it
uttered. Happy would it have been for sir Wilton, that anything he
called his, was his as it was Richard's! He could not prevent Richard
from possessing Mortgrange in a way he himself did not and would not
possess it. But neither yet were they Richard's in the full eternal way.
Nature was a noble lady whose long visit made him glad; she was not yet
at her own home in his house. There were things in the world that might
come in and drive her out. Say rather, there was yet no chamber in that
house in which she could take up her dwelling all night.
The setting sun had made Richard sad; his resurrection made him blessed!
He dressed in haste, and went to find his way from the house.
Arrived in the park, and walking in cool delight on the wet grass, he
began to think about the men and the races whom the greed of other men
and races had pinched and shouldered and squeezed from the world. He
thought of the men who, by preventing others and refusing to let them
share, imagine to increase the length and breadth and depth of their own
possessing; and thus by degrees he fell into a retributive mood. What
should, what could, what would be done with such men?
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