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"Show this gentleman out," she said, very quietly. Then the Tzigana,'s romance, in which she had put all her faith and her belief, had ended, like a bad dream, she said to herself: "My life is over!" What remained to her? Expiation? Forgetfulness? She thought of the cloister and the life of prayer of those blue sisters she saw under the trees of Maisons-Lafitte.
I am the blot on my father's name! I am the sin for which he has made the last expiation! People of Paris, for years he lived and worked among you, outwardly smiling, witty of speech and popular with you all, but inwardly a misery to himself in his own conscience, because he knew his life was not what he professed it to be. He knew that he did not believe what he asked YOU to accept as true.
The gates soon close, now, upon me." "What gates?" I demanded. "Sacrifice and expiation." "Expiation of what?" I exclaimed, exasperated. "Desire, I have read the book of Desire Michell, downstairs." I heard her gasp and shrink in the darkness. Silence bound us both.
According to the doctrines of Buddhism, the world came into being as the result of some inexplicable disturbance in the heavenly calm of Nirvana, that blessed state obtained by expiation, which had endured so long a time the change taking place by a kind of fatality.
He went on to urge with regard to the measures threatened by Gordon in expiation of the massacre that they were not justifiable, and would not in the end redound to Gordon's own credit. In conclusion, he said he felt sure that "a little reflection would show Gordon that to carry on a personal war with the Futai would be to undo all the good that had been done.
And now, this evening, she had, perhaps, attracted misfortune to him, while he was going away so confident in the joy of his return! This would be doubtless for her the supreme chastisement; she seemed to hear, in the air of the empty house, something like a threat of this expiation, she felt its slow and sure approach.
If he had observed her, it might have seemed to him that she hoped to find the fierce expiation she sought for in exposure to the thousands she had disappointed and deceived, in offering herself to be trampled to death and torn to pieces.
If the theft appeared incapable of expiation, or if the thief was not in a position to pay the value demanded by the injured party and approved by the judge, he was by the judge assigned as a bondsman to the person from whom he had stolen. Injuries Property
He puts out his eyes, and is driven into exile by his sons, whom he curses. Under the guidance of his daughter Antigone, he finds a resting-place at Colonus, a suburb of Athens, in a grove of the Eumenides, whose function it was to avenge such crimes as his. He received expiation at the hands of Theseus, and died in a calm and peaceful way.
When I had told Delcarte and Taylor that I intended searching for the girl, neither had demurred. "We had her wrong in our thoughts," said Delcarte, "and the least that we can do in expiation is to find and rescue her." We called her name aloud every few minutes as we motored up the river, but, though we returned all the way to our former camping place, we did not find her.
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