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"But," he went on, darkly, with a sense that what he was that moment suffering for his selfishness must somehow be a kind of atonement, which would finally leave him to the guiltless enjoyment of the overcoat, "you wouldn't believe the depths of baseness I could descend to." "I would try," said Alma, rapidly shading the collar, "if you'd give me some hint."
Then, in an altered voice, he added, "And revenge?" "That," said the artist, boldly, "is a pleasure I have not yet tasted. No one ever did me a real injury till the villain Zminis robbed my guiltless father of his liberty; and he is not worthy to do such mischief, as a finger of your imperial hand."
Well, after this, I am afraid some of my friends may feel, and my opponents will say, that it is very egotistical in me to have entered into these details. But I think, after this recapitulation, I am at liberty to say I am guiltless of that calamity which has fallen upon us. And I may mention that some friends of mine Mr. John Dickinson, now Chairman of the Indian Reform Association, Mr.
'Boyish hastiness is not murder, added the Doctor. 'So I thought. But it might have been, and I never repented. I brought all this on myself; and while I cannot feel guiltless in God's sight, I cannot expect it to turn out well. 'Turn out well, repeated the Doctor. 'We want Ethel to tell us that this very repentance and owning of the sin, is turning out well better than going on in it.
There is no sin that may not be blotted out in the sight of God by penitence as sincere and touching as yours appears to be." At the first words the man started with terror, in spite of himself. Then he recovered composure, and looked quietly at the astonished priest. "Father," he said, and the other could not miss the tremor in his voice, "no one is more guiltless than I of the blood shed "
There are invalids who are objects of sympathy indeed, guiltless heirs of ancestral disease, or victims of parental folly or sin, those whose lives are early blighted by maladies that seem as causeless as they are cureless, or those with whom the world has dealt so cruelly that all their delicate nature is like sweet bells jangled, or those whose powers of life are all exhausted by unnoticed labors and unseen cares, or those prematurely old with duties and dangers, heroes of thought and action, whose very names evoke the passion and the pride of a hundred thousand hearts.
Dejected, embarrassed, and occupied by a thousand inquietudes, as he then was, what would he now have given to regain the sense of innocence which alone can counter-balance a thousand evils! "Yet, then," such was his hasty and involuntary reflection, "even then, guiltless and valued by all around me, I thought myself unhappy.
Then comes Donatello's fall, illustrating the genesis of sin from crime, in accordance with the Biblical story of Cain; and this precipitates an examination, not only of the result upon Donatello himself, but of the degree in which others, even the most guiltless, are involved.
The Gulab suggested more a Rajput princess than a dancing girl. No ring pierced the thin nostrils of her Grecian nose; neither from her ears hung circles of gold or brass, or silver; and the slim ankles that peeped from a rich skirt were guiltless of anklets.
Then came out a duchess, and Clarisin the countess, with many ladies and damosels, and kneeling before King Arthur, required him for the love of God to receive the city, and not to take it by assault, for then should many guiltless be slain.