The Heart Of The Matter
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Scobie, Helen, Wilson, Louise
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A straight forward drama with plenty of irony and tragic humour. My favorite Graham Green novel.
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Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.
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Father Rank said, ‘It may seem an odd thing to say – when a man’s as wrong as he was – but I think, from what I saw of him, that he really loved God.’ She had denied just now that she felt any bitterness, but a little more of it drained out now like tears from exhausted ducts. ‘He certainly loved no one else,’ she said. ‘And you may be in the right of it there too,’ Father Rank replied.
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