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"It is three lives," he said, with the persuasive voice of the tempter. Three lives! And among them her best friend! Something rose in her throat, and she thought she was dying. "And if I cannot?" in a tone of desperate anguish. "Then we must start homeward at once. When the Hurons have whet their appetite with their hellish pleasure, it is not easily satisfied.
But Jesus knew that though the words were the words of God, the voice was the voice of the tempter, and He answered, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
I suppose her dainty prettiness struck him afresh, for he wavered and hesitated. "She's gone upstairs," pursued the tempter, "and we shall be safe away before she comes down again." Jack shuffled with one foot on the gravel. "I tell you what," he said. "I'll ask her if she minds me taking you for a little while before I "
In April and May of the following year, 1337, he granted to Robert of Artois, his tempter for three years past, court favors which proved his resolution to have been already taken.
"Youth longeth for a kindred spirit, and yearneth for a heart that can commune with his own. He meditateth night and day, doting on the image of his fancy." It is the tendency of an early love to inspire youth with grand aspirations and lofty aims. "They that love early, shall become like-minded, and the tempter shall touch them not.
Brave, uncomplaining Iris! Iris of the crystal soul! Iris, whose innocence and candor were mirrored in her blue eyes and breathed through her dear lips! Here was Othello acting as his own tempter, with not an Iago within a thousand miles. Laughing at his fantastic folly, Jenks tore the letter into little pieces.
Whereupon the tempter within me said—‘And, now you have flung down the pen, you may as well fling yourself out of the window; what remains for you to do?’ Why, to take it up again, thought I to myself, for I did not like the latter suggestion at all—and then forthwith I resumed the pen, and wrote with greater vigour than before, from about six o’clock in the evening until I could hardly see, when I rested for a while, when the tempter within me again said, or appeared to say—‘All you have been writing is stuff, it will never do—a drug—a mere drug’; and methought these last words were uttered in the gruff tones of the big publisher. ‘A thing merely to be sneezed at,’ a voice like that of Taggart added; and then I seemed to hear a sternutation,—as I probably did, for recovering from a kind of swoon, I found myself shivering with cold.
It was an earnest petition she offered before the blessed Virgin, a prayer for rescue from her enemies, and for strength to resist every temptation. And she knew not that her rescuer and her tempter were one and the same person, and that he stood there behind her at that very moment.
One to his wife, when he has exultingly shown her the money, and she has asked him how he got it 'I found it; and the other to his old companion and tempter, when he charged him with having killed that traveler, and he suddenly went headlong mad and took him by the throat and howled out, 'It wasn't I who murdered him it was misery! And such a dress! such a face! and, above all, such an extraordinarily guilty, wicked thing as he made of a knotted branch of a tree which was his walking-stick from the moment when the idea of the murder came into his head!
There are people who cannot give; they can only let a thing be taken either by the hand of chance, or by urgency and entreaty. Christopher had such fast hold of possession, that it was only after sore wrestling that he let go; and yet his heart was kind, at least to-day it was so disposed, but the tempter whispered: "It is not easy to find so good-natured a fellow as you.
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