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They rode headlong to the casernes of the Regiment of Bearn, where they took refuge for the moment from the execrations of the populace. The hapless Le Gardeur became suddenly sobered and conscious of the enormity of his act. He called madly for death from the raging crowd. He held out his hands for chains to bind a murderer, as he called himself! But no one would strike him or offer to bind him.
The probability is that neither Winder nor his direct superiors Howell Cobb and Jefferson Davis conceived in all its proportions the gigantic engine of torture and death they were organizing; nor did they comprehend the enormity of the crime they were committing.
The enormity of the deed is either stronger or lesser in their eyes than before. In the latter case, murder or suicide does not seem nearly so heinous a crime when it is brought so closely under their notice.
I assured them I was a sort of Christian; but they would not hear of it appealing to my own words, "Do not your padres, your very bishops, marry?" The absurdity of a bishop having a wife particularly struck them: they scarcely knew whether to be most amused or horror-struck at such an enormity. We proceeded due south, and slept at Rancagua.
"Don't let it occur again or I'll report you!" continued the doctor sternly. "Don't you know your duty is to obey orders and not to give them!" he thundered with an effort. The sentry dismissed so unceremoniously slunk away miserably and absolutely crestfallen. When the soldier had gone the officer turned upon me and lectured me severely, though sympathetically, upon the enormity of my offence.
Here her mind began to be overwhelmed with anguish, remorse, and terror. Her sins, now that a terrible retribution for them seemed to be impending, rose before her in all their enormity, and she knew not what to do.
He had not any strength for anger now, and hardly for grief, Agatha had been his charge; and the fact that he had never plucked up courage to allude to her practises was now an enormity in which he could not quite believe. His cowardice and its fruitage confronted him, and frightened him into a panic frenzy of remorse. Agatha had been his charge; and he had entrusted the stewardship to Patricia.
"I fear the defendant doesn't realize the enormity of the offence. However, we'll pass that by. The sentence, Miss Baker, brings me back to the starting-point. You are directed to answer the question just propounded, the question which for some inexplicable reason you didn't hear. What do you think of it this roof-garden, and things in general?"
He could not speak; but his pale face was a silent protest against this enormity. His look of horror and righteous indignation chilled and made uneasy the inquisitors, all but Hawes. "Hold your noise, ye howling brute, or I'll" and he clapped his hand before Carter's mouth. Carter seized his thumb with his teeth and bit it to the bone.
For at the river-bank the four negroes had divided by couples and gone opposite ways. "Call them back!" I urged. "Blow your horn!" But I was ignored. "I'm wondering," he lightly said, "what public enormity of to-day the next generation will be as amazed at as we are at this." "Ah," Mme. Castanado responded, "never mine! Tha'z but the moral! Aline and me we are insane for the story to finizh!"
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