The Crucial Moment - Mary Noailles Murfree - Bog

A mere moment seems an inconsiderable factor in life-only its multiplication attaining importance and signifying time. It could never have occurred to Walter Hoxer that all his years of labor, the aggregation of the material values of industry, experience, skill, integrity, could be nullified by this minimum unit of space-as sudden, as potent, as destructive, as a stroke of lightning.