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And he also discovered, doubtless, that a home without a woman therein be merely the cruel mockery of what a home should be.
Every time he opened his Bible, he read his own condemnation; and, as he slowly paced his study, he muttered text after text, always dealing with the one thing confession. He was between the devil and the deep sea. His wife's arguments for silence were unanswerable. The call of his conscience was unanswerable, too, except in one way by confession. He was a living lie; his priesthood, a mockery.
Hitherto Satan admits that Jesus had conquered, but he had done no more than any wise and good man could do. The promise of Divine aid is made in mockery. "To whom thus Jesus: 'Also it is written, Tempt not the Lord thy God. He said, and stood: But Satan, smitten with amazement, fell." It is not meant, "thou shalt not tempt ME," but rather, "it is not permitted me to tempt God."
If there was any hidden mockery, any latent contempt, any unconscious hate felt by the brave scoundrels for the cowardly scoundrel in their reverence, it was not evident to the new-comer, who took the greetings with offensive condescension, eying the bandits over the lace edges of his kerchief. Staupitz advanced some few feet to greet him. "Welcome, Monsieur Peyrolles," he said.
Then, wheeling about once more to where Israel stood, he said in a voice of mockery, "Master, my lord, my Sultan, you came to resign your office? But you shall do more than that. You shall resign your house as well, and all that's in it, and leave this town as a beggar." Israel stood unmoved. "As you will," he said quietly. "Where are the two women the slaves?" asked Ben Aboo.
Gudrun detected the tang of mockery in him, and she looked up and smiled into his face. He felt his nerves caressed. Their eyes met in knowledge. 'How do you like Shortlands? he asked. 'Oh, very much, she said, with nonchalance. 'Glad you do. Have you noticed these flowers? He led her along the path. She followed intently. Winifred came, and the governess lingered in the rear.
As he approached, the thunders, for a moment silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost unbroken sound; he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the door of the hut.
"Nor should I deserve to be forgiven if I deceived you in a matter that to you is so sacred." "But how how am I to gain this magic power to make faces feel and live on canvas?" "You must believe. You yourself must feel." She looked at him with darkening face, and then in a sudden burst of passion said: "I don't believe; I can't feel. All this is mockery, after all."
The days were far distant when the grim Turk's head was to become a mockery and a show; and when a pagan empire, born of carnage and barbarism, was to be kept alive in Europe when it was ready to die, by the collective efforts of Christian princes.
Say then, John, shall not those days be merry, and plentiful of ease and contentment for all men?" "Brother," said he, "meseemeth some doleful mockery lieth under these joyful tidings of thine; since thou hast already partly told me to my sad bewilderment what the life of man shall be in those days.
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