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Thus spake Joseph. But the women, as was natural, did not take this to be an instance of Herod's strong affection for them, but of his severe usage of them, that they could not escape destruction, nor a tyrannical death, even when he was dead himself. At this time a report went about the city Jerusalem among Herod's enemies, that Antony had tortured Herod, and put him to death.
I heard once of a Bulgarian in Vienna who was tortured tortured almost to death before he spoke. Then they thrust him into a lunatic asylum. Remember, dear, they have no consciences and no pity." "We are in London," he reminded her. "So was Von Behrling," she answered quickly, "not only in London but in a safe part of London. Yet he is dead." "It was not their doing," he declared.
Not that you'll ever have one quite as good as her, bless her! for her equal never has been seen in this world, and never will. But when you've got a little lass of your own, and know as you'd be tortured to death quite cheerful-like just to save her a minute's pain, you'll laugh at all the nonsense that's written in books, and feel you know a sight better than all of 'em put together."
Racked with pain and tortured by disease she murmured not, but, as each new cup of sorrow was put to her lips, meekly replied, "The cup which my Father hath mingled, shall I not drink it?" She was a remarkable instance of Christian submission and resignation under sufferings, and left behind her, to surviving friends, the joyful evidence that she had passed away to rest.
A few priests and monks were going into the wing of the building which contained the "Hole," with its various cells and the largest chamber of torture, to give the consolations of religion to the prisoners and those tortured by the rack who had not yet been conveyed to the hospital at Schweinau. The countess's keen glance wandered from one to another.
All these cares and worries and disappointments tortured my poor father until he became moody and distrustful.
It was a mad fancy, born of his desire to atone for a wrong that he had done to an innocent man. The wrong seemed greater than ever when it darkened the life of a weak young girl and tortured the heart of the innocent man's own child. Eight years had passed away since the tragedy that brought the little village of Beechfield into luckless notoriety.
You've cinched your million, now go get the girl." This was too much for the tortured Johnny, and the smoldering agony within him burst into flame. "Look here, Courtney!" he declared with a vehemence which really seemed quite unnecessary, "I'm going to marry Constance Joy whether she likes it or not!" A flash of white at the head of the stairs caught Johnny's eye. It was Constance!
What had he to do with the need of strangers, when these two called for all his ability and all his strength, if he was to provide them merely with necessities? He had tortured himself enough with the burden of poverty and to no end. And now he had found his release in a blessed activity, which, if he was to neglect nothing, would entirely absorb him.
The sentence of conventional sympathy half formed on Elwyn's lips died into nothingness; as little could he have offered words of cheer to one who was being tortured; but in the dim light their hands met and clasped tightly. "Hugo?" she said, "I want to ask you something. You told Jim just now that you were once very ill as a child, ill like this, ill like my child.
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