"God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction," she said. "It's different with us, I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sin on my conscience, but I know when I'm doing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away from me." "Of course, duckie," said Jeremy... "once a Catholic always a Catholic."
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Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson CBE (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was an English novelist, short-story writer, biographer and critic.
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