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Dumont tells us that, taught by events that a good character would have placed France at his feet, "he would have passed seven times through the fiery furnace to purify his name;" and that, "weeping and sobbing, he was accustomed to exclaim, 'Cruelly do I expiate the errors of my youth!" And, indeed, the more sensible his heart, the more rich and elevated his soul, the more must his torments have been bitter and redoubled; for the very preciousness of the gifts of nature, the charms of society, even the friendship of those that surrounded him, must have turned but to the increase of his wretchedness!
But the same angel, who effected his cure, was at hand, and, taking him up softly by the hair of his head, placed him before the high altar, where he performed his devotions with suitable fervour. That he might expiate the irregularities of his past life, St.
The eyes of the priests then turned to Alred, and to them the prelate spoke as he had done before to Harold; he distinguished between the oath and its fulfilment between the lesser sin and the greater the one which the Church could absolve the one which no Church had the right to exact, and which, if fulfilled, no penance could expiate.
His cheeks were thin and pale, his brow dark and clouded about his mouth were deep lines of care never more to be effaced. Princess Wilhelmina was deeply touched when she saw this change. "My husband," said she softly, raising her hands imploringly to him, "have pity on yourself on me. Hear me before you decide. I feel that I have sinned heavily against you, but I will endeavor to expiate my sin.
If indeed he were transgressing he told himself half contemptuously that as he did penance doubly, once that imposed by his own spiritual director and again that set by the Catholic at the North End, he might be held to expiate amply the pleasure of this hour.
In 1815, there died at Les Aigues one of the famous wantons of the last century, a singer, forgotten of the guillotine and the nobility, after preying upon exchequers, upon literature, upon aristocracy, and all but reaching the scaffold; forgotten, like so many fascinating old women who expiate their golden youth in country solitudes, and replace their lost loves by another, man by Nature.
We found Captain Stanwick angry and suspicious; it was not easy to pacify him on the subject of our delay. His insanity seemed to me to be now more marked than ever. He had seen, or dreamed of seeing, the ghost during the past night. In solemn words it had condemned him to expiate his crime by giving his life for the life that he had taken.
I had no other way to subsist but by asking charity, which I have done till now. But to expiate my offence against God, I enjoined myself, by way of penance, a box on the ear from every charitable person who should commiserate my condition. "This, commander of the faithful, is the motive which seemed so strange to your majesty yesterday, and for which I ought to incur your indignation.
This was what she had wanted all along, but her vanity being gratified by the possession of such a son, there was an end of it; the son himself was naught. No doubt if John had not interfered, Ernest would have had to expiate his offence with ache, penury and imprisonment.
"I was intended for the priesthood, father," I replied. "I aspired to holy orders. But through the sins of the flesh I have rendered myself unworthy. Here, perhaps, I can expiate and cleanse my heart of all the foulness it gathered in the world."
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