The Flight of the Shadow

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am old else I think I should not have the courage to tell the story I am going to tell. All those concerned in it about whose feelings I am careful are gone where thank God there are no secrets! If they know what I am doing I know they do not mind. If they were alive to read as I record they might perhaps now and again look a little paler and wish the leaf turned but to see the things set down would not make them unhappy: they do not love secrecy. Half the misery in the world comes from trying to look instead of trying to be what one is not. I would that not God only but all good men and women might see me through and through. They would not be pleased with everything they saw but then neither am I and I would have no coals of fire in my soul's pockets! But my very nature would shudder at the thought of letting one person that loved a secret see into it. Such a one never sees things as they are - would not indeed see what was there but something shaped and coloured after his own likeness. No one who loves and chooses a secret can be of the pure in heart that shall see God.