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For 'twixt HIM and your wife ain't no revolver, but the fear of God and hell and damnation and the world to come! You understand what I mean, don't ye? Ye sorter follow my lead, eh? Ye can see what I'm shootin' round, don't ye? So I want you to come up neighborly like, and drop in to see my wife."
But the character of the music imperceptibly changed. The artist bent constantly over the instrument, inclining more to the left, and there was a strange unrest in the bass notes. The Baptists from 'The Prophet' came with heavy step; a rider from 'Damnation de Faust' dashed up from far below, in a desperate, hobbling hell-gallop.
In October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of departure for the disaster of a destiny.
They'll all sleep in their beds to-night as though nothing out of the way were happening. And yet, in a few hours, maybe, there'll be Hell! That's what it's going to be Hell and damnation, if I know anything about war!" "What's that?" I asked, pointing to the harbour bar.
The Chevalier William of Nassau, natural son of the Stadholder, was very loud and violent in all the taverns and tap-rooms, drinking mighty draughts to the damnation of the Arminians.
Open the flood-gates of indulgence never so little and the torrent will force its way through and drown every worthy resolution. Its tide is next to resistless. Days of drunkenness succeed, months of self-denial are lost, and deplorable results follow everywhere. Wives are driven to desperation, mothers to despair, children to want. Demoralization, starvation, damnation follow.
If they beat him, as may happen, what a shame for us to have been beaten by the Duke of Brunswick! I desire much his entire humiliation, the chastisement of the sinner; whether his eternal damnation. You see, in Tragedy I wish always to have crime punished. I interest myself very much in this Piece" now playing under the Sun.
She is conducted by the divine will, as by a beloved chain; which way soever it goes she follows it: she would prize hell with God's will more than heaven without it; nay, she would even prefer hell before heaven if she perceived only a little more of God's good-pleasure in that than in this, so that if to suppose what is impossible she should know that her damnation would be more agreeable to God than her salvation, she would quit her salvation and run to her damnation."
When I hear one of 'em comin' now, I begin to sing to myself the old-fashioned tune I used to hear in the revivals: "'Hark from the tomb a doleful sound! 'My thoughts in dreadful subjects roll damnation and the dead "I've an idea we're going to sing some o' them old songs on this field pretty soon."
His long, crane-like neck his black, fire-sparkling eyes hem! hem! his dark, overhanging, bushy eyebrows. It is Charles! Yes, all his features are reviving before me. It is he! despite his mask! it is he! Death and damnation! For this that I have turned rebel against all the instincts of humanity? To have this vagabond outcast blunder in at last, and destroy all my cunningly devised fabric.
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