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To seek thus for ease from the stings of conscience, is like trying to silence a buzzing in the head by standing beside Niagara thundering in our ears. They used to beat the drums when a martyr died, in order to drown his testimony; and so foolish men seek to silence the voice of conscience by letting passions shout their loudest.
How has this man acquired such a terrible power over you as to make you forget your marriage vows and live a life of infamy with him? Have you no stings of conscience? Think how our sainted mother would feel if she could see her little Annie in the power of a heartless libertine. Return with me at once, and I will forget everything.
I'll give you and Diogenes first aid and then we will all go down to the lake shore. You can both sit on the dock and watch me swim." They both brightened up, and when we reached the hotel the landlady provided a soothing lotion for the bites and stings. By the time we had started for the lake, the afflicted two were in holiday spirit again.
The stings and bites and ceaseless irritation caused by these pests of the tropical forests, would be borne uncomplainingly; but to be kept prisoner by them in so rich and unexplored a country where rare and beautiful creatures are to be met with in every forest ramble a country reached by such a long and tedious voyage, and which might not in the present century be again visited for the same purpose is a punishment too severe for a naturalist to pass over in silence.
I spent an ill night, sitting up in my bed, with a lighted torch in my hand, without closing my eyes, in constant fear of the stings and bites of the scorpions and centipedes which swarm in the bengalows. I was sometimes ashamed of the fear with which those vermin inspired me; nevertheless, I could not fall asleep among them. Where, truly, in man, is the line that separates courage from cowardice?
Jake was silenced, and there was no link connecting the Colonel with the past, except his memory which lashed him like the stings of scorpions.
His bag of tools was over his shoulder; he had seen the key in the door and entered with the familiarity of a friend. "You know," he continued, "that I am working nowadays at the hospital. What a May this is! The air positively stings one this morning."
"Who are you?" asked Pandora. A sweet little voice came from inside: "Only lift the lid and you will see." But Pandora was afraid to lift the lid again. She looked across to Epimetheus, but he was so cross that he took no notice. Pandora sobbed: "No, no, I am afraid; there are so many troubles with stings flying about that we do not want any more?"
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions; and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
If with her, at all events for the present he was safe from the stings of want, and with one who had sworn to save him from his own guilty self. If, however, still in England, Alban had no doubt, sooner or later, to hunt him up. Upon the whole, this conjectural information, though unsatisfactory, allayed much anxiety. Darrell made the most of it in his representations to Waife.
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