Goudge was profoundly Christian in her own half-pagan way, but she was also a great lover of Shakespeare, and the form of the words echoes Hamlet. You don't have to fight this match, says Horatio: "I will ... say you are not fit.
HAMLET
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
Books in conversation: though heavens knows, the idea is far older.
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HAMLET
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.
Books in conversation: though heavens knows, the idea is far older.
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