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I said to myself, here are some fellow-creatures in distress, they have not a living soul to aid them; the whole power and weight of the Government are mustered against them; and although they are totally unknown to me, and although I cannot countenance or approve of their foolish and wanton proceedings; yet, as the law of England presumes every man to be innocent till he is convicted of guilt, and as they have appealed to ME in their distressing situation, as the only man to whom they can look up for assistance; shall I, because there appears to be personal danger and difficulty in the undertaking, shall I refuse or neglect to do my best to enable them to obtain a fair trial? shall I abandon them, and refuse to obey the call of humanity, and, because they are poor and defenceless, turn a deaf ear to the prayer of those that are in trouble and in prison?
"I see a light," he said to his wife, "and I hear a sound. I fear that I am possessed." This idea was most distressing to a pious man. He became pale, haggard; he wandered about on the hill near Mecca crying for help to God. More than once he drew near the edge of the cliff and was tempted to hurl himself down, and so put an end to his misery at once.
For years my pet aversion had been the cuckoo clock; now here I was, at last, right in the creature's home; so wherever I went that distressing "HOO'hoo! HOO'hoo! HOO'hoo!" was always in my ears. For a nervous man, this was a fine state of things. Some sounds are hatefuler than others, but no sound is quite so inane, and silly, and aggravating as the "HOO'hoo" of a cuckoo clock, I think.
As for Boyd, he yawned, and I most devoutly wished us all elsewhere, yet lost no word of his distressing tale: "God prosper long our King and Queen, Our lives and safeties all; A sad misfortune once there did Schenectady befall. "From forth the woods of Canady The Frenchmen tooke their way, The people of Schenectady To captivate and slay.
We believe, in short, that the object of our worship was a historical figure. I will give a few extracts from Speculum Animæ, a most valuable and most beautiful little book, which show the true bent of his mind: On all questions about religion there is the most distressing divergency. But the saints do not contradict each other. Prayer . . . is "the elevation of the mind and heart to God."
So I signed it for her...later. It was not wrong. It was right. It carried out her wish. I am glad I did it." In the next distressing hour, during which Robert Ferguson succeeded in drawing the facts from Blair's sister, there was not the slightest consciousness of wrong-doing. Over and over, with soft stubbornness, she asserted her conviction: "It was right to do it.
"It may be said, I have said it to myself, 'Why, however, did you publish? had you waited quietly, you would have changed your opinion without any of the misery, which now is involved in the change, of disappointing and distressing people. I answer, that things are so bound up together, as to form a whole, and one cannot tell what is or is not a condition of what.
He soon reached the open side of the wooded hollow, guided thereto by Drake's persistent and evidently distressing cough. Here it became necessary to advance with the utmost caution. Fortunately for the success of his enterprise, all the sentinels that night had been chosen from among the white men.
"This is the last conversation I recollect to have had with the Queen upon this distressing subject. "The Abbe Vermond, who had been Her Majesty's tutor, but who was now her private secretary, began to dread that his influence over her, from having been her confidential adviser from her youth upwards, would suffer from the rising authority of the all-predominant new favourite.
"We have just heard distressing news. The clergy are such gossips!" The elevation of Aunt Winifred's sharp nose showed her annoyance. "And you, Marcia, are always so dreadfully unfair to them. You were simply dying for Mr. Latimer to tell you all he knew, and then you abuse him." "Perfectly true," said Lady Marcia provokingly, "but if he had snubbed me, I should have respected him more."
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