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Right through the "sacred volume" runs the scarlet river, staining every page; when its record closes, the Church takes it up, and the river rolls on down the centuries; let the Inquisition tell over its victims; let Spain reckon her murdered ones, 31,912 burnt alive in that one land alone; let the Netherlands speak of their slain sons and daughters; let France and Italy swell the tale; nor let England and Scotland be forgotten, nor the blood-roll of Ireland be missed; Catholic murdering Arian; Arian slaying Catholic; Romanist burning Protestant; Protestant hanging Romanist.
Theirs will be the duty and privilege, in their capacity first as the establishers of one of the most powerful pillars sustaining the edifice of the Universal House of Justice, and then as the champion-builders of that New World Order of which that House is to be the nucleus and forerunner, to inculcate, demonstrate, and apply those twin and sorely needed principles of Divine justice and order—principles to which the political corruption and the moral license, increasingly staining the society to which they belong, offer so sad and striking a contrast.
The sun struggles through the immense windows of painted glass, staining every pillar and carved cornice with the richest hues, and wherever the eye wanders it grows giddy with the wilderness of architecture.
The sun was setting just opposite, and its lights lay flat on the ground, staining it with the red and black of the heather, or rather turning it into the surface of a purple sea, canopied over by a bank of dark-purple clouds the jet-like sparkle of the dry ling and gorse tipping the purple like sunlit wavelets. A cold wind swept in our faces. "What is the name of this place?" I asked.
And Sahadeva goeth besmearing his face, thinking "None may recognise me in this day of trouble." And, O exalted one, Nakula goeth staining himself with dust thinking, "Lest otherwise I steal the hearts of the ladies that may look at me." O fie on the Kuru elders that have acted like foolish children in thus banishing heirs of Pandu from covetousness alone.
She interpreted uncertainly the intent gaze of his beautiful, somber eyes. "I came here," she faltered, "to to find a home. I had no wish " "I understand," he said, his voice deep and sympathetic; "people have been talking to you about me. Am I right?" She was silent, a pink flush slowly staining her cheeks.
Home, wifely love, and children it was to these dear enwrapping powers she had committed him in what she had done. She had feared for herself indeed. But is it a sin to fear sin? the declension of one's own best will, the staining of one's purest feeling? On her part she could proudly answer for herself.
"'As Ah have told you once befoh, young man, he says, a-lookin' at the tickets. 'Ah can not blame you greatly, because you are paht of yoh times. This is the excuse Ah find foh you in thinking Ah would value money moh than the spohtsmanship of a gentleman. Yoh times are bad, young man! he says. 'They have succeeded in staining the puhple and white at the vehy end.
Her eyes were wide, and bluer than any deepest summer sea; her face aflame; her hair of purest gold and upon her shoulder a challenging oriflamme of scarlet, staining a rent in the faded calico. "You're hurt!" I blurted, aghast. "Not much. A scratch. Don't mind it. And you?" "I'm not touched." "Load, sir. But I think we'll have a little space. How many left? Nine." She had been counting.
It was strange indeed that I escaped arrest. The wound in my chin still bled at intervals, staining my doublet; and as I was without my cloak, which I had left in the house in the Rue Valois, I had nothing to cover my disordered dress. I was keenly, fiercely anxious.
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