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When threatened that he should expire in torments, he said: "I do not fear to die, because my country will avenge my murder, while my God receives my soul."

The litle ones doe exercise themselves about such cruelties; they deck the bodyes all over with hard straw, putting in the end of this straw, thornes, so leaves them; now & then gives them a litle rest, and sometimes gives them fresh watter and make them repose on fresh leaves. They also give them to eat of the best they have that they come to themselves againe, to give them more torments.

Stories of martyrdom are but of chains and the stake; a little bodily suffering; these torments On the purest spirits prey As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense.

An incision was then made, and she was better during some time. But the disease soon made the most fearful progress. The inflammation appeared upon the outside, and she felt the most acute pains in her breast and throughout the whole length of her arm. She patiently endured the most excruciating torments.

As he lay in bed, unable to sleep, he already experienced a return of his abominable torments the negation of everything, the feeling that everything was useless, that the world had no significance, and that life was only worthy of being cursed and denied. And then the shudder born of the thought of death returned to him. Ah! to die, to die without even having lived!

"But should I be much better off then? And how about my mother?" "Your mother? Oh! I will make her listen to reason." "You know not what she is like. The honour of the family would oblige her to get me out of the way, but before that she would make me suffer torments to which death is preferable by far. But why have you said no more about the aroph? Is it not all a jest?

I continued pointing to the chasm; she trembled not; her tears could not flow; but she divined the meaning. 'He is lost! said she; 'the earth has swallowed him! but, as I have shared with him the highest joy, so will I partake his torments. I will follow; dare not to hinder me. I shrank back.

Or there were spells so Nattee said hidden about the ground by the wizards, which changed that person's nature who found them; so that, gentle and loving as they might have been before, thereafter they took no pleasure but in the cruel torments of others, and had a strange power given to them of causing such torments at their will.

Are they dancing grotesque spectres a fantastic minuet in the moonlight, amid the cypresses of a cemetery, along the pathways bordered by graves? Their memory haunts me, obsesses me, torments me, remains with me like a wound. Why? I do not know. No doubt you think that very absurd? The two old friends were walking in the garden in bloom, where spring was bringing everything to life.

She went toward Safie and opened the case, from whence she took a lute, and presented it to her; and after some time spent in tuning it, Safie began to play, and, accompanying the instrument with her voice, sang a song about the torments that absence creates to lovers.