"I cannot spare you--remember--Therese!"
To the pang of the thought that he had died unconfessed succeeded the
question, more painful still--
"Could religious offices avail anything to a soul wholly unsanctified?
Is there a promise that any power can put such a spirit into immediate
congeniality with the temper of Heaven? Among the many mansions, is
there one which would not be a prison to such?--to the proud one who
must there feel himself poor and miserable, and blind and naked?"