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"I remember your two novels," said Ascher, "and I recognised in them the touch, the unmistakable touch." "Let's go down to lunch," said Gorman. He left the deck as he spoke. Even Gorman does not like to stand self-convicted of being a selfish conceited swine. Ascher laid his hand on my arm as we went down to the saloon. "What a brilliant fellow he is," he whispered.
Five years ago all things wore a different aspect. I began to have misgivings; I could not so clearly make out my case. New thoughts on the subject and not very welcome ones began to intrude. I was self-convicted of wrong; yes, Rose, of a great and an irreparable wrong. I shut my eyes; I tried to look in other directions; but the truth, once seen, could not pass from the range of mental vision.
It is a grim spectacle, but it emphasizes the sense of human guilt. Only the Revealed Word of God affords a complete and satisfactory explanation of the remarkable fact that the human race universally stand self-convicted of sin. There is also a tribute to the truth of Christianity in certain traces of a conception of Divine sacrifice for sin found in some of the early religious faiths of men.
The chaplain took him to his state room in the main cabin? and there, Shuffles, conquered and subdued by the kindness of his friends, confessed the terrible crime he had committed that he had pushed Pelham overboard. The chaplain was confounded at this confession, but still more so when the self-convicted conspirator revealed all the secrets of "The Chain."
To this she made no answer, but I could perceive that she stood self-convicted, and having said what I conceived necessary upon the occasion, I dismissed her, observing that it was useless for ladies and gentlemen to establish schools for the education of the infant poor, if the parents did not assist by setting them a good example.
Yesterday he was chosen an alderman by the ballots of the people of this city. A self-convicted falsifier and cheat! A man who snaps his fingers in the face of the laws of the country! Isn't that a commentary on the workings of universal suffrage?"
It is like the Tychonic astronomy, encumbered and self-convicted by its own complicated relations and useless perplexities. It is so little like the simplicity of nature, it is so unworthy of the divine hand, that it even offends against those rules of propriety which we require to be observed in the imperfect compositions of the human intellect ."
Besides, Kondwana stood there self-convicted of the deadly sin which admitted of no pardon; he had returned unsuccessful from an expedition; he had been defeated. Moreover, Tshaka was in a bad temper owing to the causes we have specified. So he signed to one of his ever-ready executioners and said: "Take them away and kill them."
"Well, what of her, man?" impatiently demanded the young nobleman. "Listen, my lord duke! You saw her committed to prison on the charge of perjury." "A charge that she was self-convicted of." "My lord duke, she was not guilty of perjury!" sighed the valet. "What! What is that you say?" quickly demanded the duke.
"Strangled," whispered the girl. "Poor old doggie!" Then she whirled upon the prostrate man. "You murderer!" she said very low. "It's not murder to put a dying brute out of the way," said the shaken man sullenly. "But it's fraud, in this case," retorted Average Jones. "A fraud of which you're self-convicted. Get up."
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