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Yet the words continued to have a ateways or hyperboles The

historical, or local, or psychological interest in the words was

another thing There re What was this relation between a needle's eye, a

rich man, and heaven? What sort of a needle's eye, what sort of

a rich man, what sort of heaven? Who knows? It means the

Absolute World, and can never be more than half interpreted in

terms of the relative world

But must one apply the speech literally? Was her father a

rich et to heaven? Or was he only a half-rich

ave

everything away to the poor, he would find it et

to heaven The needle's eye would be too tight for him She

al to the

base of it, any man was rich as not as poor as the

poorest

She had her qual away their piano and the ts, and the capital at the

bank, to the labourers of the district, so that they, the

Brangwens, should be as poor as the Wherrys And she did not