/ by Edward Mullany

She did not, in brief, regard that which was ‘lowly’ as repugnant, or beneath her. She likely would not even have had much occasion to use the term ‘lowly’, in thought or in speech, for that would have required of her the habit of relegating the things of reality into the artificial and self-involved mental categories by which one becomes conscious of one’s personal preferences (and protective of them), and of which only the proud and the worldly have need.