Sublime

dovetailed:

All children want to be ordinary, and she never was, and that had been difficult – but all adults want to be extraordinary, and now she amplifies her strangeness, delighting in her ignorance of worldly matters and her tendency to speak sometimes in a biblical cadence, telling men she meets that she was born in 1887 (this being the year they dug Bet

queerly shaped old man, with a thick, powerful body set on short bow-legs.

“Oh Lord, we beseech thee . . . direct our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God.”