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Thomas Wingfold, Curate
Home - George MacDonald - Thomas Wingfold, CurateWHAT HE SAID. If he could, then to have seen and distrusted that man, Wingfold felt, would have been to destroy in himself the believing faculty and become incapable of trusting for ever after. And such a man must, in virtue of his very innocence, know that the worst weariness and the worst load is evil and crime, and must know himself able, in full righteousness, with no jugglery of oblivion or self-esteem, to take off the heavy load and give rest.
"And yet," thought the curate, not without self-reproach, "for one who will go to him to get the rest, a thousand will ask--HOW CAN HE THEN DO IT?--As if they should be fit to know!"
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