A veritable transfiguration of the individual may occur, the black magic of which may perplex him for a lifetime.

Every one expected this, but just as the Train broke out of the gorge into the open, at the edge of the river-bedthere was a great sucking transfiguration from the shallows, a hideous sort of giving birth from the mud.

Besides, there are other reasons why I am contented that my father was a country parson, born much about the same time as Scott and Wordsworth; notwithstanding certain qualms I have felt at the fact that the property on which I am living was saved out of tithe before the period of commutation, and without the provisional transfiguration into a modus.