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He retired into himself; to enjoy his own sensation。 There
was something subterranean about him; as if he had an underworld
refuge。 The young girl hated to be in the house with him when he
was like this。
After dinner; he retired into the parlour; continuing in the
same state of abstraction; which was a burden intolerable to
her。 Then he went to the book…shelf and took down books to look
at; that she had scarcely glanced over。
He sat absorbed over a book on the illuminations in old
missals; and then over a book on paintings in churches: Italian;
English; French and German。 He had; when he was sixteen;
discovered a Roman Catholic bookshop where he could find such
things。
He turned the leaves in absorption; absorbed in looking; not
thinking。 He was like a man whose eyes were in his chest; she
said of him later。
She came to look at the things with him。 Half they fascinated
her。 She was puzzled; interested; and antagonistic。
It was when she came to pictures of the Pieta that she burst
out。
〃I do think they're loathsome;〃 she cried。
〃What?〃 he said; surprised; abstracted。
〃Those bodies with slits in them; posing to be
worshipped。〃
〃You see; it means the Sacraments; the Bread;〃 he said
slowly。
〃Does it;〃 she cried。 〃Then it's worse。 I don't want to see
your chest slit; nor to eat your dead body
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