And because they cannot always find all these things in themselves in the
exact order and in the full power in which they are told of Christian in
Bunyan's book, they begin to have doubts about themselves as to whether
they are true pilgrims at all. But here is Faithful, with whom Christian
held such sweet and confidential discourse, and yet he had come through
not a single one of all these things. The two pilgrims had come from the
same City of Destruction indeed, and they had met at the gate of Vanity
and passed through Vanity Fair together, but, till they embraced one
another again in the Celestial City, that was absolutely all the
experience they had in common. Faithful had never had any such burden on
his back as that was which had for so long crushed Christian to the
earth. And the all but complete absence of such a burden may have helped
to let Faithful get over the Slough of Despond dry shod. He had the good
lot to escape Sinai also and the Hill Difficulty, and his passing by the
House Beautiful and not making the acquaintance of Discretion and
Prudence and Charity may have had something to do with the fact that one
named Wanton had like to have done him such a mischief.
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