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.”
Úgy tekintettem rá, mint egy olyan helyre, ahol korábban éltem, de ahonnan elköltöztem. Elmondhattam azt, amit Ábrahám pátriárka mondott a gazdagnak: "Közöttem és közötted nagy űr tátong.".