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"See her! yes; but how? at each return from a voyage. I may see her once, with an iron grating between us; she disguised with her black shrouding robe and veil, and thinking that she must suffer here to expiate the fate of Dr. Grimshaw, who, scorpion-like, stung himself to death with the venom of his own bad passions.
Or will they, inexorably condemned as the accursed scions of an accursed stock, expiate the original stain of my detested crime? "Oh, tell me tell me, gracious Lord! shall I be forgiven with them, or will they be punished with me?" The twilight gave place to a dark and stormy night, yet the Jew continued to pray, kneeling at the foot of the cross.
Save me!... I can do no more. I feel a horrible fear. I have so much to expiate!..." Little by little she had raised herself from the divan, and, while begging Ferragut's protection, was going toward him with outstretched arms; abject, and yet at the same time caressing, through that desire of seduction that always predominated over all her acts. "Leave me!" shouted the sailor.
"To do the right!" she cried vehemently; "out of my own great sorrow to expiate the wrong! May it not be, my Father, if I shrink not from the right at any cost?" "I will consider," he said, "since thy will is strong for this sacrifice." "Sacrifice!" she cried, in her amazement breaking all reserve. "Oh, Father! To call this 'sacrifice, when the very light of life is gone from me!
Redfield expressed a word of hope, and in that spirit the ranger mounted and rode away back toward the small teepee wherein Wetherford was doing his best to expiate his past a past that left him old and friendless at fifty-five. The sheriff and his men took up the work of vengeance which fell to them as officers of the law.
The stranger told him that he had undertaken this painful voyage in order, under the monastic habit and in exile, to expiate his sins. Columba, desirous of trying the reality of his repentance, drew a most repulsive picture of the hardships and difficult obligations of the new life.
However that may be, he waxed wroth and banished the conscientious sculptor in disgrace to this lonely mountain village, there to expiate his sins, for a day or two.... One sleeps badly here. Those nightingales they are worse than the tram-cars in town. They begin earlier. They make more noise. Surely there is a time for everything? Will certain birds never learn to sing at reasonable hours?
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.
I said, anxious to make it easy for her to be entirely truthful, for I could not doubt the truth of much of this earlier history. She did not seem to hear me. "There is no crime," she went on, "however black, that I did not expiate then. If suffering can wash out sins, I washed out mine. I, who thought I had so many enemies, have no enemy. No one has ever injured me.
All my darling schemes dashed in pieces, all my hopes at an end; deny me not the liberty to refuge myself in some obscure corner, where neither the enemies you have made me, nor the few friends you have left me, may ever hear of the supposed rash-one, till those happy moments are at hand, which shall expiate for all! I had not a word to say for myself. Such a war in my mind had I never known.
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