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Awahy! we are beset, and here's abasement brought on us without self-abasing! Meantime these horsemen detached themselves from the main bodies and advanced at a gallop, wheeling and circling round each other, toward the walls of the city, and when they were close they lowered their arms and made signs of amity, and proclaimed their mission and the name of him they served.
His clothes were in tatters, and his fine face was like that of a warrior defaced by swords. But he refused to be carried, and his first care was for the boy, who had received no mortal injury. "You have saved the boy, Pierre," said the priest, in a low voice. "Self-abasing always, dear abbe; you saved us both. By heaven, but the king lost a great man in you!" "Hush!
While the fagots were prepared, he was taken to St. Mary's Church to hear his own funeral sermon and make his last public confession; but that confession, to the sore amazement and dismay of the authorities, proved to be the cry of the humble and self-abasing sinner repenting not his heresies but his recantations.
The doctor spread his hands apart in the most self-abasing way, but the King was not appeased. "Picture me, the eldest son of Holy Church, His Most Christian Majesty, masquerading as the servant of a leech! Have a care, Master Leoni. You have a way of handling a lancet and letting your patients' blood. Recollect that kings have a way too of treating patients so that they never bleed again."
Ravenel acquiesced, in a tone which indicated there could be but one opinion on such a subject. "You know how firmly I have believed this always, mother!" She pressed his hand for reply. "I told her that I could never marry her. But the thing was too strong for me I went away from the place where she was. Oh," he cried, in a heat of self-abasing, "I grow cold when I think what a cad I was!
Sorrow and confession and self-abasing love will make up for the evil word; suffering will not. For evil in the abstract, nothing can be done. It is eternally evil. But I may be saved from it by learning to loathe it, to hate it, to shrink from it with an eternal avoidance. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
A little conscious of all the eyes that centred upon her with varying degrees of admiration, love, desire, or self-abasing devotion, she felt the soft color deepen in her cheeks as she playfully took possession of McElvey's axe. "You're not goin' to do it, father, I reckon!" she exclaimed. "No, sis," answered the boss, smiling down at her, "leastways, not unless the hands is all scared."
Pilate holding Christ's life in his hand is the crowning paradox of history, and the mystery of self-abasing love. One exercise of the Prisoner's will and His chains would have snapped, and the governor lain dead on the marble 'pavement. The two hearings are parallel, and yet contrasted.
Let not thy shame nor thy self-abasing apprehension of thyself, drive thee from the firm and permanent ground of hope, which is the promise, and the doctrine of an Advocate with the Father.
He began to perceive that all his approaches to love had been self-abasing. In the true sense of the word he had never been in love. Dream-intoxicated, yes! But all that he had experienced had been desire. It was a new thought to him that a man must respect, even more than he desires, the woman whom he covets. His feeling for Lady Dawn was one of worship.
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