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Before possession of the continent was taken by Europeans, war was more constantly the occupation of his life, than it has been since; but even now his only object in taking his enemies alive, is to subject them to the most inhuman tortures. And in these brutal orgies, the women are most active, even taking the lead, in applying the cord and the brand.
The scene filled him with horror; but, a few months later, on the Place de la Grève at Paris, he might have witnessed tortures equally revolting and equally vindictive, inflicted on the regicide Ravaillac by the sentence of grave and learned judges. After climbing on to the rear of the King's carriage in one of the streets of Paris, he stabbed the King twice, the second wound proving fatal.
This was decidedly an aggravating old man, but John Slover answered not a word. Nevertheless, he was suffering tortures already. He traced the first paling of the air token of dawn; and still the old man did not sleep. There was no chance of escape. Did the fellow intend to talk all night? Ah! He had dropped his pipe; his voice drawled off; he turned upon his side, and snored!
The priest shrugged his shoulders. "I fear nothing and no man," replied he with calmness, "but I am cautious. I provide against everything, and I am prepared even for this, that they may seize me." "Dreadful tortures would await thee in that case!" whispered Ramses. "No tortures. I shall open a door directly from the subterranean chamber of the labyrinth to the land of endless light."
I will tell them the truth, and you shall have the post for the asking." "You will go to Vincennes!" exclaimed Clark; "a hard and dangerous journey of a hundred leagues!" "Monsieur," answered the priest, simply, "the journey is nothing. For a century the missionaries of the Church have walked this wilderness alone with God. Often they have suffered, and often died in tortures but gladly."
"Do you not see that I can no longer endure this life, this thought which is wearing me out, or this question which I am constantly asking myself, this question which tortures me each time I look at them? It is driving me mad." "Then you have suffered a great deal?" she said. "Terribly.
More than three hundred others were imprisoned on the same charge, and were held captive for eighteen months, during which they were subjected by the tyrant to daily tortures. The ferocious dictator took special pleasure in the torment of these unfortunates, devising tortures of his own and making a diversion out of his revenge.
He felt within him sources of suffering so numerous, diverse, and complicated, such an afflux of miseries, such inevitable tortures, he felt so lost, so far overwhelmed, from this moment, by a wave of unimaginable agony that he could not suppose anyone ever had suffered as he did.
In the course of the morning we passed the spot where Pontius Pilate is said to have thrown himself into the lake. The legend goes that after the Crucifixion his conscience troubled him, and he fled from Jerusalem and wandered about the earth, weary of life and a prey to tortures of the mind.
If thou leave me, I shall imagine a thousand things and suffer tortures of anxiety on thine account, for I cannot brook thine absence from me. 'Go then, rejoined Amjed, 'and do not tarry. So Asaad took money and leaving his brother awaiting him, descended the mountain and fared on, till he entered the city.
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