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After remaining a few hours to recruit the exhausted frames of the prisoners, the savages again started on their march, one of the older Indians offering to relieve the mother from the burden of her infant, which she had hitherto carried in her arms. Pleased with the unexpected kindness, she resigned to him her tender charge.
Throw down your weapon, and listen to me; he who now addresses you is a man, possessing a heart that beats in sympathy for your misfortunes. I have both the means and the will to relieve your distress. The robber cast the stone from him, and burst into tears. 'Pardon me, kind stranger, he cried, 'I did intend you harm, for my brain is burning, and my vitals consumed by starvation.
The excellent people who oppose any remedial legislation which might relieve the situation, seem equally responsible for the present condition, however well-intentioned they may be. One effect of the present system is the practically unchecked transmission of disease.
She tried hard, but could not prevent a sob. And then came a burst of tears. "Will you not tell me something about it?" said the curate, yet more gently. Oh, how gladly would he relieve her heart if he might! "Perhaps Jesus has begun to give you help, though you do not know it yet," he said, "His help may be on the way to you, or even with you, only you do not recognize it for what it is.
Possibly, but it is to be remembered that there is bad in the best even where there is no good in the worst. Moreover, the sublime indifference in the face of certain death often has its origin in a still deeper necessity to relieve the insufferable strain on scarified nerves, and forever.
Major Barbara stands up to Bill Walker in that way, with the result that the ruffian who cannot get hated, has to hate himself. To relieve this agony be tries to get punished; but the Salvationist whom he tries to provoke is as merciless as Barbara, and only prays for him. Then he tries to pay, but can get nobody to take his money.
"Have you seen the morning paper, Hubert?" she asked, with a little rippling laugh on her lips. "It is amusing to me how these newspaper men get hold of things so quickly. I was down to one of the stores this afternoon ordering the wedding-cards. I knew you would be anxious to get them, and I wanted to relieve your mind and Gerelda's as well.
His eyes, which had been resting eagerly on mine, shifted aside in visible embarrassment. "Impossible! It would only aggravate matters, or, rather, would not relieve my fears at all. The person who took it knew its nature very well, and that person " "Oh, then you know who took it!" I broke in in increasing astonishment. "I thought from your manner that "
The only palliative which the ingenuity of Glossin could offer to his conscience was, that the temptation was great, and came suddenly upon him, embracing as it were the very advantages on which his mind had so long rested, and promising to relieve him from distresses which must have otherwise speedily overwhelmed him.
The Colonel guessed his anxiety and hastened to relieve it, or increase it. "You haven't met my daughter, Lieutenant?" he asked casually. "I haven't that honor, Colonel, but this gives me the happy opportunity." He said it with such boyish fun in his ringing voice that Cooke laughed in spite of his desire to maintain the strictest dignity.
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