title: Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story
author:  Sally Read 
description: "Sally Read's story is the best and liveliest account of a conversion for a generation. It is a story of divine grace as moving and unexpected as it is luminous and profound. There is not a wasted brush-stroke, not a blurred line. It is an absorbing story, a tale that will grip readers all the way through to the end."<br /> --<b>Paul Murray,OP</b>, Angelicum University; Author, <i>T.S. Eliot and Mysticism</i><br /><br />
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  # A Reversion To Type
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Josephine Daskam
  
  
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  A REVERSION TO TYPE
  
  
  By Josephine Daskam
  
  
  Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons
  
  
  She had never felt so tired of it all, it seemed to her. The sun
  
  
  streamed hot across the backs of the shining seats into her eyes, but
  
  
  she was too tired to get the window-pole. She watched the incoming
  
  
  class listlessly, wondering whether it would be worth while to ask one
  
  
  of them to close the shutter. They chattered and giggled and bustled
  
  
  in, rattling the chairs about, and begging one another's pardon
  
  
  vociferously, with that insistent politeness which marks a sharply
  
  
  defined stage in the social evolution of the young girl. They irritated
  
  
  her excessively—these little airs and graces. She opened her book with
  
  
  a snap, and began to call the roll sharply.
  
  
  Midway up the 