By writing about it I probably made the incident
appear much more important than it really was. I've no doubt I did
triumph a little, and I'm afraid I shall never be able not to feel
rather glad when a fellow like that is put in his place. I am not
for a moment going to try to argue that you can carry Christian
charity too far. The more one meditates on the words, and actions
of Our Lord, the more one grasps how impossible it is to carry
charity too far. All the same, one owes as much charity to Father
Rowley as to the young man. This sounds now I have written it down
as if I were getting in a hit at you, and that is the worst of
writing letters to justify oneself. What I am trying to say is that
if I were to have taken up arms for the young man and supposed him
to be ill-used or misjudged I should be criticizing Father Rowley.
I think that perhaps you don't quite realize what a saint he is in
every way. This is my fault, no doubt, because in my letters to you
I have always emphasized anything that would bring into relief his
personality. I expect that I've been too much concerned to draw a
picture of him as a man, in doing which I've perhaps been
unsuccessful in giving you a picture of him as a priest.
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