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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, VII: the free church (search)
all accomplished, all fascinating person; some men were jealous of him, some women distrusted him; all the rest he fascinated. . . . He knew everything in advance of study, he could do everything at the first trial. In travelling I have been waylaid by utter strangers who saw me with him, and who having talked with him five minutes could not rest without learning who this wondrous creature was. To everybody he was an astonishment—to me he was a delight—we lived together at Cambridge like Warrington and Pendennis (for he was younger than I, and yet how barren I seemed compared to him!). To me, moreover, he was always noble and sweet, he loved me truly and generously—and I on the other hand when clouds came around his good name and at last utterly swallowed him I clung to him—for years. . . . My eyes were opened—too late to save him—and he was lost to me forever. . . . And yet all his crime is an utter moral weakness, joined with gifts too brilliant for anything but a strong mor