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and give heed to certain confessions, extorted under the peine forte et dure of a whilom state legal.
Labour by all means for a sense of the evil that is in sin. Q. What evil is there in sin? Q. What else would you advise me to in this great work? Q. What else becomes me in my confessions of sin? Q. Is here all? Q. What if I cannot thus confess my sins?
Finally, the possibility of exposure in a trial, had its weight. I continued my occupation till the last coat was folded, and the lock turned, when I seated myself opposite my luggage, and waited impatiently for my friend's return. THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER, v6 Dublin Trevanion came at last.
These priests, tempered in the fires of confessional, these judges who in that time of demonomania and murder had never heard more terrifying confessions, these prelates whom no depravity had ever astonished, made the sign of the Cross, and Jean de Malestroit rose and for very shame veiled the face of the Christ. Then all lowered their heads, and without a word they listened.
236 The reason for which all these things have come to pass is that their persecutors, finding these unfortunate ones without protection, have forgone more weighty matters and occupied themselves instead with harassing this afflicted people. Numerous confessions and divers creeds abide peacefully beneath the shadow of thy sovereignty. Let this people be also numbered with them.
She never alluded to that knowledge, never corrected the half-lie which accompanies so many whispered self accusations. Confidences and confessions are too often a means of evasion of justice a laying of the case for the plaintiff before a judge without allowing the defendant to be present or to call a witness.
They had read over to them, from a scaffold erected in the forecourt of Notre-Dame, the confessions they had made, but lately, under torture, and it was announced to them that they were sentenced to perpetual imprisonment.
He says: "In 1821, as a contribution to a periodical work in 1822, as a separate volume appeared the 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. At the close of this little work the reader was instructed to believe, and truly instructed, that I had mastered the tyranny of opium. The fact is, that twice I mastered it, and by efforts even more prodigious in the second of these cases than in the first.
"You see," went on the prince, "one can never tell into whose hands may fall that collection of confessions which the Father has extracted from those who are guilty." "And you think you can obtain it for me?" asked the banker. "I am still friendly with many of Rasputin's friends. It is merely a matter of payment another hundred thousand roubles, and surely it is worth it."
In these speculations and confessions of Arthur, the reader may perhaps see allusions to questions which, no doubt, have occupied and discomposed himself, and which he has answered by very different solutions to those come to by our friend.
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