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My natural impulse should have been to draw you aside and there accuse you. But this was beyond my strength. And when I saw you go away without a word I knew that I had been unjust. I could have wept before them all. Mr. Carroll went for his coach, and was a full half an hour in getting it. But this is what I would tell you in particular, Richard.
Then Aselzion's voice, calm, clear and very gentle, vibrated on the silence. "There is no death!" he said "You cannot die! There is no oblivion, you may not forget! There is but one way of life to live it!" Another moment's stillness then again the steady, resolute voice went on. "You accuse life of injustice, it is you who are unjust to life!
"I am in the depths of hell, with never a gleam of hope to lead me on. And the sin the sin " He stopped suddenly, and his hands fell to his side. Slowly he turned round and looked at her, half doubtfully, half fearfully. What had he said? What had she heard? What did that look in her face mean that look of anguish, of fear, of horror? Why did she not speak, even though it were to accuse him?
Addison and Landor accuse Milton, with reason, of too great a fondness for the pun, yet surely there is something to please the mind, as well as the ear, in the description of the heavenly judgment, That brought into this world a world of woe.
Unless, therefore, we find our way into some circle of gentle scholars or lovers of the beautiful quite simple in their tastes, a thing possible but not often granted by a niggard fortune, we are perforce thrown back upon our own company, and move towards the grave alone. For this we accuse none; nothing is more at fault than our own constitution.
Baubie forgot in her flush of triumphant recollection that there had always been somebody to take the two shillings from her, and beat her and accuse her of malversation and embezzlement into the bargain.
I succeeded so far as to make him declare that he was scarcely less desirous of justice than myself; but there was an embarrassment in his tone of which I was at no loss to perceive the cause. To accuse Montreuil publicly of his forgery might ultimately bring to light Gerald's latter knowledge of the fraud.
I have been a faithful daughter of my fatherland. I have given every thing there remains nothing but myself, and oh, how gladly would I give my life for Poland! But God has forsaken us; His eyes are turned away!" "Accuse not the Lord, dear lady," prayed Matuschka. "Put your trust in Him, and take courage." "It is true. I have no right to accuse my Maker," sighed the countess.
"Guardian," he said, "why have you or Mr. Cardlestone given this man these cheques and securities? What hold has he on you?" Old Cardlestone began to whimper afresh; Elphick turned a troubled face on his ward. "He he threatened to accuse us of the murder of Marbury!" he faltered. "We we didn't see that we had a chance."
It would have implied all the rest that he could not believe. And it would not have changed the fact. 'The aspect of it may change, Leonard. You know yourself how many immediate causes combined, of which you cannot accuse yourself your brother's wrongheadedness, and all the rest. And, added the Doctor, recovering himself, 'you do see it in other aspects, I know.
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