I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectations from, and, indeed, no desires about: in a word, I had nothing indeed to do with it, nor was ever likely to have, so I thought it looked, as we may perhaps look upon it hereafter—viz. as a place I had lived in, but was come out of it; and well might I say, as Father Abraham to Dives, “Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed.”
Je pense que je le regardais comme peut-être le regarderons-nous après cette vie, je veux dire ainsi qu'un lieu où j'avais vécu, mais d'où j'étais sorti; et je pouvais bien dire comme notre père Abraham au Mauvais Riche:--«Entre toi et moi il y a un abyme profond.»