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There is an old French verse which, rendered into English, says "Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived; But what torments of pain you endured From evils that never arrived!" Now, a little patience would have saved me a useless ebullition of temper.
She will not, or cannot, reflect that special hardships must occur under all law; that it is the duty of the individual to bear such chance griefs without insurrection against the public conscience; that entire freedom of private judgment would dissolve society.
On the contrary, it would be a greater comfort to me than any I now enjoy that I could have your agreeable visits with safety, and could see both you and my dear Sophia, could it be without giving her the grief of seeing her father in tenebris, and under the load of insupportable sorrows." He gives a touching description of the griefs which are preying upon his mind.
Noble, discreet heart! he never told me," she thought; "though all my griefs and cares are his, he never told me!" Emmanuel came before Martha could get back. "You have kept a secret from me," she said, showing him her mother's letter. Emmanuel bent his head. "Marguerite, are you in great trouble?" he asked.
Now I untie the knot of life and let my spirit free! Fare thee well, Prince, the pilgrimage is done! Harmachis, from a babe have I loved thee, and love thee yet! but no more in this world may I share thy griefs I am spent. Osiris, take thou my Spirit!" and her trembling knees gave way and she sank to the ground. I ran to her side and looked upon her.
"What you two quar'lin' about?" demanded 'Manda Grier, coming suddenly into the room; and that turned their retrospective griefs into joy again. "I'm scoldin' him because he don't think enough of himself," cried Statira. "Well, he seems to take it pretty meekly," said 'Manda Grier. "I guess you didn't scold very hard.
So he names that as the putting off of the body of sins which we ordinarily call contrition, because in these griefs the natural concupiscence is purged away. And quickening ought not to be understood as a Platonic fancy, but as consolation which truly sustains life that is escaping in contrition. Here, therefore, are two parts: contrition and faith.
"Has your physician never felt your pulse?" "Now you are laughing at me." "No, madame, I admire you, because I comprehend you. But you let a man hear your voice, you let yourself be seen, you in short, you permit our eyes to admire you " "Ah!" she said, interrupting him, "that is one of my griefs.
She was learning to believe everything this man uttered. From consolation he passed to advice. "You must do the exact opposite of what you have been doing." "Must I?" "You must visit those poor people; ay, more than ever you did; hear patiently their griefs; do not expect much in return, neither sympathy nor a great deal of gratitude; vulgar sorrow is selfish.
If I have offended you sometimes, you must bear the reproach; for when someone offends me, if it were granted me to complain to you, I should not confide my griefs to others; but when we are on bad terms, I am obliged to keep them to myself, and that maddens me.
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