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"Come in," said the doctor, and Aunt Dilsey entered. In a very sad tone, she commenced telling how "that ’tarnal Rondeau was raising Cain in the kitchen. He’s kissed Leffie, and me too!" "Kissed you, has he?" said Dr. Lacey. "Yes, sar, he done that ar very thing, spang on the mouth," said Dilsey.
I have seen a good number of murderers in my day, but I have seldom seen one with such marks of Cain on his countenance as the man at the bar." "Well, I am no physiognomist, but I don't think his face strikes me as bad. It certainly is gloomy and depressed, and not unnaturally so, considering his situation." "Only look at his low, resolute brow, his downcast eye, his white compressed lips.
Cry "Murder!" in the market-place, and each Will turn upon his neighbor anxious eyes That ask: "Art thou the man?" We hunted Cain, Some centuries ago, across the world, That bred the fear our own misdeeds maintain To-day. Vibart's Moralities. Shakespeare says something about worms, or it may be giants or beetles, turning if you tread on them too severely.
At length some of the loyal inhabitants of Toledo, who knew all its secret and subterraneous passages, some of which, if chroniclers may be believed, have existed since the days of Hercules, if not of Tubal Cain, introduced Temam and a chosen band of his warriors into the very center of the city, where they suddenly appeared as if by magic. A panic seized upon the insurgents.
Captain Cain was over two bands, namely, the zealous and the angry blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was the murdering club. Captain Nimrod was captain over two bands, namely, the tyrannical and encroaching blood-men: his standard-bearer bare the red colours, and his scutcheon was the great bloodhound.
"Pardon, Cain was the true Progressivist and Reformer," put in Graub; "Some fine sentiment of the garden of Eden was in his blood, which impelled him to offer up a vegetable sacrifice to the Deity, whereas Abel had already committed murder by slaying lambs.
You wouldn't stir up suspicion against yourself again by runnin' away now, after I tell you that my eye is on the one that did it." The Swede started. "You mean now?" "Not this very minute," Kirby laughed. "I mean I've got the person spotted, at least I think I have. I've made a lot of mistakes since I started roundin' up this fellow with the brand of Cain. Maybe I'm makin' another.
He has written only one scene, as far as we can recollect, which is dramatic even in manner the scene between Lucifer and Cain. The conference is animated, and each of the interlocutors has a fair share of it. But this scene, when examined, will be found to be a confirmation of our remarks. It is a dialogue only in form. It is a soliloquy in essence.
But if thou dost not feel this cry, take heed that thou be not slothful and secure; pray constantly, for thou art in an evil state. Cain saith, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from Thy face shall I be hid; and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me."
Cain is not a very good model, but his question is the world's question, and it implies the expectation of a negative answer 'Am I my brother's keeper? Surely, the very language answers itself, and, although Cain thinks that the only answer is 'No, wisdom sees that the only answer is 'Yes. For if I am my brother's brother, then surely I am my brother's keeper. We have a better example.
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