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Robin felt a strange thrill of glory at the thought that he bore with…
Quote byRobert Hugh Benson · 1871–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912), Pt. 3, ch. 3, sec. 2.
English (original)
Robin felt a strange thrill of glory at the thought that he bore with him, in virtue of his priesthood only, so much consolation. He faced for the first time that tremendous call of which he had heard so much in Rheims—that desolate cry of souls that longed and longed in vain for those gifts which a priest of Christ could alone bestow.
— Robert Hugh Benson
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