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Legs and arms were completely numbed, and the many abrasions that we had come by during the towing process to which we had been subjected made Kaipi's efforts to restore circulation by rubbing a species of torture that would surely have earned the commendation of Torquemada if it had been brought under his notice. "Narrow squeak, Verslun," remarked Holman, as he endeavoured to get to his knees.
A terrible selfishness, if rightly considered; but one which accorded with the delusion that this world is a cave of care, the other world a place of torture or undying bliss, death the prime object of our meditation, and lifelong abandonment of our fellow-men the highest mode of existence.
And let us leave the matter as it is; do not torture me any more, it would be too cruel of you." Then, quivering like a woman who suddenly perceives that she is bare, in a stranger's presence, she hastily pulled down her sleeves, and even drew them over her hands as if to leave naught of her person visible. And afterwards she rose and walked away without adding a single word.
The persistent yearning for a sudden awakening increased my torture, and as the hour for the funeral drew nearer my anguish became more poignant still. It was only at daybreak that I had recovered a fuller consciousness of what was going on around me. The creaking of hinges startled me out of my stupor. Mme Gabin had just opened the window.
They had passed from each other, beyond all contact of spirit with spirit and flesh with flesh, beyond all words and looks of longing; they had nothing of each other but sight, sight that had all the violence of touch without its satisfaction, that served only to excite them, to torture them with desire.
Her face was strangely drawn, and pinched, and there was in it a constant look as of a person cowed. Arthur turned away. 'I want you to know that I do not blame you in the least for anything you did. No action of yours can ever lessen my affection for you. 'Oh, why did you come here? Why do you torture me by saying such things?
She had begged for Crawford's friendship she could not bring herself to let him go without hearing that he forgave her and would think of her as a friend but now she vowed she would not be so silly and childish as to torture him or herself unnecessarily. She would not do it. And so she did not write. After Christmas came the long, dull winter.
"Oh, I fear he's dead, my heart tells me he's dead. Oh, mammy, mammy, how can God be so cruel? I don't know who caused this war or who's to blame, but I feel now as if I could TORTURE them." "I'se feared dat ain' de right speret, honey." "How can one have the right spirit when mocked by such a hope as I've had? It needn't have happened. Oh, Mrs. Waldo, I could tell you NOW I'm no Christian at all.
That torture she had undergone during the entire dinner, at the conclusion of which Dorsenne essayed to chat gayly with her.
Flames go round her, and she burns not her robe not at all. And as she go, I hear cries that make me sick, for it is, I said, some poor man in torture, and I think, perhaps it is Jacques Villon, perhaps Jean Rivas, perhaps Angele Damgoche. But no, it is a young priest of St. Clair, for he is never seen again never!"
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