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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Was there ever a man so wise that a woman couldn't make a fool of him?" Could there be a crueler irony of fate than to be absolutely convinced of the widowhood of her you love and to be unable, practically, to establish the fact? Stephen French had expatriated himself, resigned the work he valued, put the seas between himself and Deena, only to be baffled at every turn.
But now you have my confession. As soon as I can speak with her alone I will release her from that promise. She was fain to be free before all the world, our little part of it, but I fastened it on her. I see now that I could not have invented a crueler punishment; but it was never my purpose to punish her. I will also tell her that I have opened the true state of the case to you."
It was this savage prince who invented much of the Alcazar in the soft Moorish taste; but in those hideous galleries he let his terrible nature loose, though as for that some say he was no crueler than certain other Spanish kings of that period. This is the notion of my unadvertised Encyclopaedia Britannica, and perhaps we ought to think of him leniently as Peter the Ferocious.
He spoke as he had spoken at the memorable interview between them which had made a new woman of her. "I can imagine no crueler trial," he said, "than the trial that is now before you. The benefactress to whom you owe everything asks nothing from you but your silence. The person whom you have wronged is no longer present to stimulate your resolution to speak.
The excitement spread through the train, and men, and even women, left their seats, overflowing the aisles. There is no crueler thing than a city crowd, all eyes and morbid curiosity. But Mr. Trimm didn't see the staring eyes on that ride to the Grand Central. What he saw was many shifting feet and a hedge of legs shutting him in closely those and the things on his wrists.
Hiram White was only twenty-seven years old, but he was already in local repute as a "character." As a boy he was thought to be half-witted or "natural," and, as is the case with such unfortunates in small country towns where everybody knows everybody, he was made a common sport and jest for the keener, crueler wits of the neighborhood.
At the furlong pole beyond, Tay Ho's hooded head for the first time showed in front only to be instantly eclipsed by the white star of Aldegonde. Aramis began to hang the angry roar of his backers told he was out of it. Simultaneously, the jockeys sat down to ride there was the cruel swish of catgut, the crueler prodding of steel.
War has taken on greater magnitude, while the soldier has become more refined, and it is not to be denied that both war and the fighting man are losing their traditional prestige. The causes of this diminution of prestige are various. Some are moral, such as the increased respect for human life, and the disfavour with which the more aggressive, crueler qualities have come to be regarded.
Only an instant wrenching away, and a lightning leap aside, saved the thrall from being run through. His short bronze knife was no match for a sword. He gave himself up for lost, and stiffened himself to die bravely, as became Earl Edmund's son. He had yet to learn that there are crueler things than sword-thrusts.
Slavery has not only been controlled, but it has been destroyed, and yet things have not begun to come right with us; but it was in the order of Providence that chattel slavery should cease before industrial slavery, and the infinitely crueler and stupider vanity and luxury bred of it, should be attacked.
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