Other Fiction Hocking, Silas Kitto: Rex Raynor, Artist. v1. 18 Mar 2016

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Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called Her Benny (1879), which was a best-seller.
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Never had right appeared so difficult before. Never had wrong seemed so full of promise as now. Indeed, to Jane Raynor’s darkened and bewildered sense, right and wrong might have changed places, and judgment and conscience dropped out of existence altogether. She had been in trying circumstances before—many times, in fact, and oft; for with an ailing family and a small and precarious income, life had not been all a bed of roses; a bed of thorns would, perhaps, more truly describe it. Still, in the past, right had always seemed right—had always commended itself to her judgment and conscience alike; while duty, however difficult, had ever lain clear and distinct before her.

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