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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 34: Overclubbableness (search)
t seems, if a man has ventured to die without an initiation, solemn or otherwise, into some secret order. Yet it is but charity to recognize that he may, after all, have lived a decent life. The remarkable thing is that these innumerable societies, most of which began with some temporary separation of their members from their homes, have gradually been conquered, to a certain extent, by the home influence; and almost all have now some small annex for women also. I met many years ago, in Fayal, a middle-aged English woman who had lived for fifteen years on board ship with her husband, her sons being already launched as sailors. Her husband was a high official in the Masonic fraternity, and she had, through some accident, become possessed, in a foreign port, of some secrets of that order. To settle the matter then and there, she was initiated and pledged to secrecy, so that no further trouble should come. Her discovery was the more remarkable, as she was very deaf; and her init