George knows, he is going to Ireland with his sister.
I can't help thinking it is all a great, a wicked mistake, and I can't help still thinking it _selfish_.
George talked about Mrs Housman, at least he just alluded to her having become a nun, as if it were a fact and quite irrevocable. He said: "Once the priests get hold of someone they will never let them go, and in this case it was a regular conspiracy." But somehow or other this did not seem to me to ring quite true, from _him_, and I felt he was using this as a shield or a disguise or mask. I said so to Godfrey, but found it impossible to get any response. He won't talk about it.
_Sunday, August_ 26_th. Carbis Bay Hotel_.
I have come down here to spend a week by myself. It is three years ago since I came here for the first time to stay with Mr and Mrs Housman.
I hesitated about coming down here again, but I am now glad that I did so.
I went to Father Stanway's church this morning and heard him preach. He is a good preacher, clear and unaffected. He quoted two sayings which struck me. One was about going away from earthly solace, and the other I cannot remember well enough to transcribe, but I have written him a post card asking who said them and where I could find them.
In the afternoon I went for a walk alone along the cliffs and passed the place where we began _Les Misérables_. I am re-reading it, not where we left off, but from the beginning.
Father Stanway called this morning while I was out. He has left me the quotations on a card.
They are both from Thomas à Kempis. One of them is this: "By so much the more does a man draw nigh to God as he goes away from all earthly solace." The other: "Whosoever is not ready to suffer all things and to stand resigned to the will of his beloved is not worthy to be called a lover."
I have resolved to give up keeping this diary.
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