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Such sincerity , devotion , purity as his could n't be mistaken . As I realized it , it transfigured the whole place . It made me feel that if that quality -- just goodness -- could so glorify all the defects of his look and mind and manner , it must be worth while , and I would like to have it . So I knew what was right in my heart -- I think you can always know what 's right if you want to know -- and I just chucked my pride and my stubbornness into the street , and -- and I caught the 7:35 train . '' The light of renunciation , the exhaustion of wrenching effort , the trembling triumph of hard-won victory , were in the boy 's face , and the thought , as he looked at it , dear and familiar in every shadow , that he had never seen spirit shine through clay more transparently . Never in their lives had the two been as close , never had the son so unveiled his soul before . And , as he had said , in all probability never would it be again .