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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

- Mary Augusta Ward
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.