Bad Girl Magdalene (2014)
“His great wish was to have inherited a different name than the one he possessed. Wrong, he was certain, to hate one’s heritage, but wearing a name identifying a person with this or that stamp was particularly onerous. He had felt this right from being small, when his wealthy family had directed him to the priesthood. From his earliest schooldays he could remember nothing but the destiny that waited for him. The Church invited.
He sometimes wondered if his response to situations like this at... the St Cosmo – priest taken ill, a doctor with dark hints on the telephone, nuns in residence wanting everything made different than the situation seemed to dictate – was nothing more than that of a bureaucrat confronted with tiresome in-tray documents brought by some irritating mail clerk. Should there not be more than this?
He alighted from his car, thinking he really ought to get the tyres seen to. And the inevitable draught at the left side of his chin while driving seemed beyond the wit of motor engineers the world over.MoreLess
He sometimes wondered if his response to situations like this at... the St Cosmo – priest taken ill, a doctor with dark hints on the telephone, nuns in residence wanting everything made different than the situation seemed to dictate – was nothing more than that of a bureaucrat confronted with tiresome in-tray documents brought by some irritating mail clerk. Should there not be more than this?
He alighted from his car, thinking he really ought to get the tyres seen to. And the inevitable draught at the left side of his chin while driving seemed beyond the wit of motor engineers the world over.MoreLess
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