Chapter 13
“Must it be? Must we then
Render back to God again
This, His broken work, this thing
For His man that once did sing?”
—Josephine Prestor Peabody.
“And listen! I declare to you that if all is as you say—and I do not doubt it—you have never ceased to be virtuous in the sight of God!”—Victor Hugo.
THE REBEL PROVES THAT HE IS LOST TO GOOD FORM AND RESPECTABILITY BY STEPPING BETWEEN A SINNER AND THE WAGES OF SIN, THUS EVIDENCING TO THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY HIS COMPLETE DEGENERATION