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There is one Man who can stand before God without repentance or confession, and whose claim 'I do always the things that please Him, the awful voice from the opening heavens endorses, when it proclaims; 'This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. The lowly Servant of God flings out His challenge to the universe: 'Who will contend with Me? and that gage has lain in the lists for nineteen centuries unlifted.
Kennedy Square would have looked askance had such things been suggested or even mentioned in its presence, and the dames would have lowered their voices in discussing them. Even the men would have passed with unlifted hats either party to such shame.
That was the meaning; last sign of that terrible reality passing morality, duty, common sense her aversion from him who had owned her body, but had never touched her spirit or her heart. It hurt; yes more than if she had kept her mask unmoved, her hand unlifted.
For it could not have been alone the privation, the infinite toil, the unending suspense in constant menace of death that assaulted their courage; these they had looked for; it was rather the unlifted gloom of those tartarean depths, the unspeakable horrors of an endless valley of the shadow of death, in which every step was irrevocable....
First there were stifled sounds of scuffle from the interior of the guard-house; then shrill, wrathful screams; then a woman's voice unlifted in wild upbraidings in an unknown tongue, at sound of which Trooper Kennedy dropped his rein and his jaw, stood staring one minute; then, with the exclamation: "Mother of God, but I know that woman!" burst his way through the crowd and ran toward the old log blockhouse at the gate, the temporary post of the guard.
"From the piece of it you sent me in the winter." "Oh! those ferns? I'm glad you liked them. There's something nice and plucky about those little things, isn't there?" It was every word he could think of to reply. He had a provoked perception that was not altogether nice and plucky, of himself, just then. But that was because the snow was still unlifted from him.
Cheer after cheer was given, huzza after huzza rang out over her head from roofs and balcony, bouquet after bouquet was launched by fair and enthusiastic admirers before her; and yet, amid the crash and swell of music, the cheering and tumult, so gentle and manageable was she, that, though I could feel her frame creep and tremble under me as she moved through that whirlwind of excitement, no check or curb was needed, and the bridle-lines the same she wore when she came to me at Malvern Hill lay unlifted on the pommel of the saddle.
Gunning's new cob stood hearkening with flickering ears to the various commotions of the street she understood them all perfectly well, but her soul being unlifted by reason of oats, she chose to resent them as impertinences.
As I looked at Messer Simone where he stood there, girt with strength in every line of his body, in every curl of his crisp hair and short beard, in the watchful ferocity of his eyes, he seemed to me a kind of symbol of what man may be who is unlifted by any inspiration of divinity or tincture of letters from the common herd.
But never from the first to last had she received a letter from him that was transparent; the mystery stayed unlifted; she had to accept the constancy of his friendship without its confidence.
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