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Rh equal detestation, and I think I am guilty of no paradox if I say that her style is the outcome of the moral conflict in which she found herself involved, for the thought to defend herself was never out of her mind. But relieved of her load of sin by Christianity or by Paganism (a subtlety which we cannot discuss here, our discussion being confined to discovering the source of her style) she might have written—well, it's impossible to say how she might have written, but certainly more delightfully than she has written.

He did not keep religion out of his writings; he remained a sour Protestant. He could not visit the monks without commenting, and adversely, on the mode of life they chose to adopt, and in the Inland Voyage he is also ready to advance the claims of Protestantism against those of Rome; and in his essay on Villon he never ceases to thank God that he was not himself like Villon. No; I think you would have done better