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III. Christ aggravating the guilt of those who had delivered him to Pilate, from a consideration of the power which he possessed, in which there might be an allusion to Pilate's character as an unprincipled man. Therefore, he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. We will treat of these in their order.
There is a possibility that harm may be done to the South and to the Negro by exaggerated newspaper articles which are written near the scene or in the midst of specially aggravating occurrences.
It was when I was in Toronto that fall, visitin' Maria, an' you'd never guess where I seen him, if you was to try from now to the crack o' doom!" She resumed her sewing with the most aggravating coolness. "Drunk in the street," suggested Maggie. "Maggie, it's awful to talk about a minister like that!" cried her mother, weakening her reproof with a laugh. "Where in the world was it, 'Liza?"
She clung to the parson as a support under both her sources of trouble, but Miss Betty ran on and back, and hither and thither, looking for the diamond. Miss Kitty and the parson looked too, and how many aggravating little bits of glass and silica, and shining nothings and good-for-nothings there are in the world, no one would believe who has not looked for a lost diamond on a high road.
For months vainly did she furnish proofs of her sincerity of heart, the Cardinal reporting them in due season to the Marquis, who persisted in discrediting them, and each fresh good deed of his enemy augmented his hatred by aggravating the uneasiness which was caused him, notwithstanding all, by a vague sense of his iniquity.
"Who is the man you wish to surrender?" he asked with aggravating calmness. "George Collins," she replied without hesitancy. "What evidence have you that he committed the crime?" "He often threatened to kill Mr. Whitmore. He told me of his intention innumerable times in the past six weeks." "Have you any evidence bearing on the act itself on the killing, I mean?"
"Enough of this sort of flummery, my sweet nephew; I don't like it. I am used to rough, plain speaking, even from my heydukes. I prefer to have it so. You, my good nephew, have come hither from a great distance to inherit my estate, and your creditors no doubt will be marching after you in regiments, and now you find me alive. A little aggravating I take it, eh?"
"How do we know it wasn't Abel's fault? He may have been an aggravating child; some are born so, and I've seen a child, many a time, go on at another till he's almost worried him into a frenzy just saying, 'I see you, over and over again, does it sometimes.
"Rebecca," said Caroline admonishingly, keeping her mouth stiff and swallowing determinately. "I never heard him speak a cross word, unless he spoke cross to Henry that last night. I don't know, but he did from what Rebecca overheard," said Emma. "Not so much cross as sort of soft, and sweet, and aggravating," sniffled Rebecca. "He never raised his voice," said Caroline; "but he had his way."
A piece of broken chain remained attached to the carronade. This bit of chain had twisted in some incomprehensible way around the breech button. One end of the chain was fastened to the gun-carriage; the other end thrashed wildly around, aggravating the danger with every bound of the cannon.
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