United States or Andorra ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Yes, Fantômas had changed his plans: rid of the Nihilists, he could have it all his own way with Fandor! The disciples, as with one voice, cried: "We are thy faithful followers. What thou ordainest that we do!"... Trokoff turned to Fandor. He shook a threatening fist in Fandor's face. "Collect yourself.... You are to pay the price of expiation soon!"
"I am furthermore obliged to admit," said Des Hermies, "that in spite of the blood shed on Golgotha, I personally feel as if my ransom had not been quite effected." "There are three kingdoms," the astrologer resumed, pressing down the ashes of his pipe with his finger. "Of the Old Testament, that of the Father, the kingdom of fear. Of the New Testament, that of the Son, the kingdom of expiation.
A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human generosities, the expiation for others." Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his impressions.
It cannot be known whether Clovis ever felt in his soul any scruple or regret for his many acts of ferocity and perfidy, or if he looked, as sufficient expiation, upon the favor he had bestowed on the churches and their bishops, upon the gifts he lavished on them, and upon the absolutions he demanded of them.
If we only could learn to look at ourselves as we are! It's a stupid, unenlightened society that metes out most of our punishments and usually demands a senseless expiation." Augusta Maturin waited, and presently Janet spoke again. "I've been thinking all summer, Mrs. Maturin. There was so much I wanted to talk about with you, but I wanted to be sure of myself first.
The passion and promise of it were alike turned to nobler and more permanent uses, presaging the quick coming of expiation and of reconciliation contained in that supreme event.
More than that he'd be a hero who had died upon the battle-field in a war to which she had sent him. His death would be upon her soul. Her only expiation would be to be faithful to him forever." "I won't argue about it," said the dummy-chucker. "I don't know her. Only I guess your whisky has got me. I don't see it at all." His host leaned eagerly forward now.
I know better than you every man knows who has been a parish priest what vileness a man can be guilty of to save his skin. Reserve your wrath for Leicester, but let this poor creature be he has an awful expiation before him and consider with me if the worst of this evil cannot be remedied." He turned to the curate. "You have the registers the parish papers? Where are they? Here?"
In the fever of body and brain at that moment it seemed to solve all the problems of life for me. That would be the real expiation, not burying myself in a convent. To live for my child! Alone with her! Here, where my sin had been, to work out my atonement! This pleased and stirred and uplifted me very much when I first thought of it.
She knew they were true as far as Amherst was concerned: in the arts of casuistry and equivocation a child could have outmatched him, and she had only to exert her will to dupe him as deeply as she pleased. Well! the task was odious, but it was needful: it was the bitterest part of her expiation that she must deceive him once more to save him from the results of her former deception.
Word Of The Day