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She had suffered some unforgivable wrong at the hands of Oldring. With that conviction Venters felt a shame throughout his body, and it marked the rekindling of fierce anger and ruthlessness. In the past long year he had nursed resentment. He had hated the wilderness the loneliness of the uplands. He had waited for something to come to pass. It had come.
But Lass, at the very start, had committed the unforgivable sin of being born a female. Therefore, no pet-seeker wanted to buy her. Even when she was offered for sale at half the sum asked for her less handsome brothers, no one wanted her. A mare or the female of nearly any species except the canine brings as high and as ready a price as does the male. But never the female dog.
She ran to him and, kneeling at his side, laid a kind little hand on his shoulder. "Don't Antoine!" she said pitifully. "Ah, don't, my dear!" He caught the hand and held it against his cheek. "It's unforgivable!" he muttered. "No, no. I do forgive you." "You can't forgive! . . . Impossible!" "I think I can, Antoine. You see, I need forgiveness so badly myself.
"They disagreed, and she divorced him, thinking he would remain poor. The whirligig of time changed their relative positions, and to a jealous-minded woman that was unforgivable." "The affair made a rare stir here anyhow," went on the doctor.
"It it was unpardonable of me . . ." His voice vibrated with some strong emotion, and Diana regarded him curiously. "Then you meant it?" she said slowly. "It was deliberate?" He bent his head affirmatively. "Yes," he replied. "I suppose you think it unforgivable. And yet and yet it would have been better so." "Better? But why? I'm generally" dimpling a little "considered rather nice."
To him, therefore, the one unforgivable sin is treason against that; as probably to die for England after having notched a good account of her enemies on his unerring rifle would be for him not merely a crown of glory, but the purest and completest joy that could happen to him.
No one he had ever known or heard of had made so great a sacrifice. Not for herself this immolation, but for a sister who had betrayed her confidence and who had repaid a life's devotion with unforgivable humiliation and disgrace. This was the woman whose heart he held. This was the woman he loved with every fibre of his being. But her sufferings were over now.
The unforgivable offence in him is, that he wished to set-up Priests over the head of Kings. In other words, he strove to make the Government of Scotland a Theocracy. This indeed is properly the sum of his offences, the essential sin; for which what pardon can there be? It is most true, he did, at bottom, consciously or unconsciously, mean a Theocracy, or Government of God.
For, twist and turn it as I might, there was always the unforgivable thing at the end: the fact that by calling in help and betraying Dorgan to others, I, once his prison-mate, and even now, like him though in a lesser degree a law-breaker, would become a "snitch," an informer, a traitor to my kind. A wretchedly distorted point of view? Doubtless it was.
The blood burned redly under the girl's brown skin. "No one but a woman could know how unforgivable is that insult," she said. Then, with a suddenly conceived appeal to the man himself: "But why a bargain at all? You have the strength, the courage, the brains why chaffer when you have but to strike once to win all?
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