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Walking back up the hill to Francy's empty house, I realize Robert must be discreetly glad that Frank the pathetically lost man is now leaving him alone awhile. Robert has enough sadness in his own lonely separate peace. A godly man with no God fit to purpose
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Leigh Seippel (Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy)
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Francy was out of the water when I arrived. Laid out on gravel wet as only the drowned can be. Nobody had had the nerve to close those clear eyes, those parted lips graying already
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Leigh Seippel (Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy)
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No matter. It is Francy, only Francy, I want to haunt me. Beg her to now. As I should have far better begged her in life. I spoke too lightly to her depth in my shallowness
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Leigh Seippel (Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy)
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I had replaced literature with financial fictions. And turned further up to that conclusive moment in my and Francy's bankruptcy trial that I should have remembered from Yale the questioning irony an astute reader brings to a complex novel
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Leigh Seippel (Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy)
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This would most effectively open them to the answers they needed, seeing us as allies in their search and not as rivals.
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David Leigh (Presupposing: How to Defend the Faith - The Methods of Francis A. Schaeffer & Cornelius Van Til)