Page 86 (1/2)

Baruch went neither to Barnes's shop nor to the Marshalls for nearly

aover the Moreh Nevochim,

for it had proved too powerful a temptation for him, and he fell upon

the theorem that without God the Universe could not continue to

exist, for God is its For oror much depends

upon the quality of hisin it particularly adapted to Baruch's

condition at that moment, but an antidote may be none the less

efficacious because it is not direct It reht and sound of the sea to the man who

has been in trouble in an inland city His self-confidence was

restored, for he to whoer personal and consequently poor

His room seemed too small for him; he shut his book and went to Great

Ormond Street He found there Marshall, Mrs Caffyn, Clara and a

friend of Marshall's named Dennis

'Where is your wife?' said Baruch to Marshall

'Gone with Miss Madge to the Catholic chapel to hear a mass of

Mozart's' 'Yes,' said Mrs Caffyn 'I tell them they'll turn Papists if they do

notto that place, and there's no