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The Bible is, then, our authority for saying woman must content herself with this sphere, and try to meet its responsibilities, or she will lose self-respect and cast away the regard of the community. Without the Bible, her life is everywhere proven to be gloomy. With it, and beneath its protection, she becomes an heir of hope. Notice the characteristics of her power as a tempter.
There I seated myself, and endeavoured to develop more fully the rude and imperfect outline of my scheme. "The arch tempter favoured me with a trusty coadjutor in my designs. I was lost in a revery, when I heard myself accosted by name.
Have you seen Glossin? 'No, replied Meg Merrilies; 'you've missed your blow, ye blood- spiller! and ye have nothing to expect from the tempter. 'Hagel! exclaimed the ruffian, 'if I had him but by the throat! And what am I to do then? 'Do? answered the gipsy; 'die like a man, or be hanged like a dog! 'Hanged, ye hag of Satan! The hemp's not sown that shall hang me.
And my father was faint for want of water and fell to the ground; and the man whose face was a blank loosed thy hand and departed: and as he went I could see his face; and it was the face of the Great Tempter. And thou, Romola, didst wring thy hands and seek for water, and there was none.
In bitterness she asked herself, "What chance is there for me to reach 'that happier shore, with the tempter at my side and everything in the present and past combining to drag me down?" "There, thank heaven 'meetin's over," whispered Sibley, as Miss Burton rose from the piano.
And so Maria Theresa silenced her scruples, and persuaded herself that she was compelled to do as the tempter had suggested. She tore open the note; but true to her self-imposed vow, she paused on the threshold of dishonor, and read nothing but the writer's name. "Riccardo!" cried she, wildly. "You were right, Margaretta: an intrigue with the Riccardo.
"When I was a very little child," she writes, "I used to amuse myself and my brothers with inventing stories such as I had read. Having, as I suppose, naturally a restless mind and busy imagination, this soon became the chief pleasure of my life. Unfortunately my brothers were always fond of encouraging this propensity, and I found in Taylor, my maid, a still greater tempter.
With this remembrance and these reflections came a horrible train of shadowy fears, witnesses, verdict, surrender, spoliation arrears ruin! The man, who had gained the door, turned back and looked at him with a complacent, half-triumphant leer upon his impudent, reckless face. "Sir," then said Mr. Beaufort, mildly, "I repeat that you had better see Mr. Blackwell." The tempter saw his triumph.
I forgot the sweet tones of my wife's words the pure-souled words themselves tones and words which, while their sounds yet lingered in my ears, I could not have questioned I did not dare to question. The tempter grew in the ascendant the moment I had passed out of her sight; and when I met William Edgerton the next day, he acquired greatly-increased power over my understanding.
'Here! says the subtle tempter, 'I'll give you twopence if you'll put your baby on the fire! The god-like hero thunders: 'No! He is my flesh and blood. He is the sacred trust of Heaven. He is innocent, he is helpless. I'll show you to the door! Oh! what emotions stir within the heart when a master's hand awakes a chord like this!
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