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Escombe shuddered as he reflected that, ignorant as he had hitherto been of the presence of the plesiosauri in the lake, it had only been by a series of fortuitous circumstances or was it the intervention of a merciful Providence? that he had been from time to time prevented from bathing in the lake, ay, and actually swimming out to the distant rock, as he had several times been strongly tempted to do.
We beg, however, most strongly to recommend the prisoner to your lordship's merciful consideration, believing that he has been led into this crime by one who has been much more guilty than himself. 'I knew Mr. Chaffanbrass was wrong, said Mr. Gitemthruet. 'I knew he was wrong when he acknowledged so much.
The doctor hailed them and told them of the stores we had left, and where they were to find them, but they continued to call us by name and appeal to us for God's sake to be merciful and not leave them to die in such a place.
I leave the will and the letter to help you: I give them both into your care." He saw how his parting kindness touched her and thoughtfully hastened the farewell. She took his hand in both her own and murmured a few broken words of gratitude. "Trust me to do my best," he said and, turning away with a merciful abruptness, left her.
But God hath done these things, and manifested his merciful disposition toward mankind. We have no need to "do evil that good may come. Our unrighteousness is not necessary to commend the righteousness of God." How then, are we to understand the prayer of Moses, placed at the head of this discourse blot me, I pray that, out of thy book which than hast written?
'In Him we have redemption through His blood, and He comes to every one of you now, even through my poor lips, with His ancient word of merciful invitation: 'Behold! I have blotted out as a cloud thy sins and as a thick cloud thy transgressions. Turn unto Me, for I have redeemed thee. 'Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And in regard to our Christian life, if God has flung open His temple-gates and said to us, 'Come in, My child, and dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and abide there under the shadow of the Almighty, finding protection and communion and companionship in My worship, there can be nothing more insulting to Him, and nothing more fatally indicative of the alienation of our hearts from Him, than that we should refuse to obey the merciful invitation.
He commands you to be kind, tender, and forgiving only as he is; and you contend that his kindness, tenderness and forgiveness, extend to a part only, and that all the rest he will torture world without end. But, says the objector, God is now kind, tender, forgiving, and merciful to all; but he will not be so, when they enter eternity, for "the doors of mercy will then be shut."
All of a sudden he was crying, as if with a loud voice from the bottom of his heart, though never a sound rose through his throat, "Oh thou who didst make me, if thou art anywhere, if there be such a one as I cry to, unmake me again; undo that which thou hast done; tear asunder and scatter that which thou hast put together! Be merciful for once, and kill me.
At last the hunted and haunted wretch persuaded himself that "the Yard" meant to be merciful. Tears glistened in his eyes, but he finished the whisky and soda and remained silent. "Good!" said Winter more cheerfully. "I sha'n't call you Maselli again if you don't behave. Now, how long have you lived in Gloucester Mansions?" "Four months, sir. Ever since my marriage." Winter smiled.
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