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I demonstrated to them the folly of wreaking their vengeance upon unoffending tradesmen, who were suffering from the weight of taxes nearly as much as themselves; and I endeavoured to convince them of the superiority of mental over physical force; contending that it would be an act of injustice, as well as folly, to resort to the latter while we had the power of exercising the former.
Dost not thou remember, Horam, the story of Mahoud, the son of the jeweller? And how am I sure but even now private malice may be wreaking as great cruelty upon some innocent person, as the Princess Hemjunah suffered from the enchanter Bennaskar?"
More than that, so deeply do I feel, so great a loathing and indignation has your story sown in my heart, that were our liberty now restored us I would willingly join hands with you in wreaking vengeance on these evildoers." Sir Crispin laughed. He judged the tone rather than the words, and it rang hollow. "Where are your wits, O casuist?" he cried mockingly. "Where are your doctrines?
She was the Murderer, bound for Gallows Bay; she was the Manslaughterer, bound for Penal Settlement; her captain ought to be tried for his life; her crew ran down men in row-boats with a relish; she mashed up Thames lightermen with her paddles; she fired property with her funnels; she always was, and she always would be, wreaking destruction upon somebody or something, after the manner of all her kind.
"There would be more sense in that, than in wreaking yourself here upon two wenches that have done you and your daughter no ill." "No ill?" answered the old woman "and he to marry this jail-bird, if ever she gets her foot loose!"
The terrible moment of complete illumination had come to me, and I saw that the darkness had hidden no landscape from me, but only a blank prosaic wall: from that evening forth, through the sickening years which followed, I saw all round the narrow room of this woman's soul saw petty artifice and mere negation where I had delighted to believe in coy sensibilities and in wit at war with latent feeling saw the light floating vanities of the girl defining themselves into the systematic coquetry, the scheming selfishness, of the woman saw repulsion and antipathy harden into cruel hatred, giving pain only for the sake of wreaking itself.
On reflection, he was convinced of a certainty that solved a problem which had preoccupied him for a long time namely, the mysterious connection between his own presence in the mansion in the Place du Palais-Bourbon and the presence of a woman who was manifestly wreaking her hatred on him. He now understood that he had not bought the house by accident.
What had she done with her life? She would be sorry for it at once, for she was kind of heart: but she was suffering too much: and she could not help wreaking her vengeance on the man who was bound to her and was stifling her life, by making him suffer more than he was indeed suffering.
Frank and unquestioned infection as it is, wreaking two-thirds of its visible damage in the lung itself, the liability to its occurrence and the outlook for its cure depend almost wholly upon the general vigor and rallying power of the entire body.
But what a morning dawned! Another storm, more terrible than the first, had been raging all night, and its violence was still increasing. And now it came on to rain; and rain and wind and sea appeared to vie with each other in wreaking their fury on the ill-starred expedition. Tuesday night the storm abated, and Wednesday brought fair weather.
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