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How else can we understand the facts related both in Hindoo and in Christian story, of those men and women who have found such strange raptures in slow tortures, prolonged from year to year, till pain became a habit of body and mind?
"I cannot part from you, carrying away with me a thought that tortures me; absurd I know it to be, and yet one which rends my very heart." "Are you going away, then, for any length of time?" inquired La Valliere, with faltering utterance, while Montalais turned her head aside. "No; probably I shall not be absent more than a fortnight."
The tortures of the poor little creatures, hanging thus by their middles, under a burning sun, and shaken up by every jolt the machine gave as it turned, may be imagined. By the time the abominable thing came past my window, amidst singing and band-playing and cheering, most of the poor children were swinging unconscious from the rays of the great sun which jolted heavily at every turn it made.
The pangs and tortures of the waterless wilderness. The thirst of human souls; they long, whether they know it or not, for Truth for Understanding. Love for Heart. Basis and Guidance for Will and Effort. Cleansing for Conscience. Adequate objects for their powers. They need that all these should be in One. The gnawing pain of our thirst is not a myth; it is the secret of man's restlessness.
Now, although she sang of love, it was a different love from that which Joseph knew and worshiped; and as she toyed with him his hot blood warred with his priestly devotion until he was racked with the tortures of the pit. But she would not let him go.
"I have seldom met a human being who hasn't tried to catch me." "But why?" asked Maya in a tremor. "You see," said Miss Loveydear, with a modest smirk and a drooping, sidewise glance, "there's something attractive about us dragon-flies. That's the only reason I know. Some members of our family who let themselves be caught went through the cruellest tortures and finally died."
Apart from all the agony consequent to asphyxiation, they must have suffered hellish tortures through the agency of spirit brains." This is the anecdote as related to me, and it serves as an illustration of my theory that the unknown brain is objective, and that it can, under given circumstances i.e. when physical life is, so to speak, in abeyance be both seen and felt by the known brain.
Jethro sat by the window, to all appearances oblivious to the tortures of his victim. He who has tried to write a note the simplest note when his mind was harassed, will understand something of Isaac Worthington's sensations. He would no sooner get an inkling of what his opening sentence was to be than the flames of his anger would rise and sweep it away.
The sports of the circus were added to the tortures of the victims, Nero himself driving his chariot in the races, or mingling with the rabble in his coachman's dress. These cruel proceedings continued until even the hardened Roman heart became softened with compassion, spectators failed to come, and Nero felt obliged to yield to a general demand that the persecutions should cease.
In the inconsistency of his terror, he said he was but the agent of others, and he muttered the name of Rashleigh. He prayed but for life for life he would give all he had in the world: it was but life he asked life, if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations: he asked only breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of the lowest caverns of their hills.
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