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There are others of whom the bloody trade makes gabbling fools, light-headed, wild-eyed wasters of words, full of the importance of their mind-wrecking deeds. Like the savage whose reputation mounts with each wet scalp, each fresh head, these kill out of depravity, glorying in the growing score. To this class Mark Thorn belonged.
Ullathorne, the penal settlement was established six years before its religious instruction was thought of by the government. One of the prisoners tried in 1834 was a man of singular ability and great presence of mind, and by him Norfolk Island was represented to be a "hell upon earth;" and so it was as far as the company of evil spirits glorying in evil deeds could make it.
I have thoroughly weighed the consequences of sending this girl to gaol, and they are very terrible. My son will do as he has threatened, I am sure of that; and I can picture him tied to that infamous creature for life, looking into her face, and telling her that he adores her, and glorying in his dishonor, which will be repeated by every Parisian newspaper."
"Wall what?" he answered defiantly, trying to get breath. "I hain't said nothin." "Oh, you mean boy!" she cried indignantly. "I'll never help you again when father wants to whip you never! Tell me this minute what happened. Is he hurt?" "Is who hurt?" asked her brother, glorying in superiority of knowledge, and the power to tease with impunity.
He was too much absorbed by his "self-study, self-wonder, and self-worship," as one of his critics styles his egotism, to be clear-sighted. He had generous impulses, but no uniform generosity of heart; and while glorying in the few ostentatious sacrifices he made to pet ideas, he had no perception of the nature of self-sacrifice.
But what could be more luminous than the portrait of Sarah Purfoy, the clever, self-possessed adventuress with the single redeeming quality of an invincible love for her worthless and villainous convict-husband? or that of Frere, the swaggering, red-whiskered, coarsely good-humoured convict-driver, glorying in his knowledge of the heights and depths of criminal ingenuity and vice, and frankly ignorant of all else?
Her savagery fed itself on threats, and increased as she felt herself grow mistress of the situation. Partly the primitive love of power, partly the animal instinct to subject and oppress pride on top of that, and something of her sex, too, glorying in giving orders to the self-styled sterner members drove her to increasing frenzy.
I wonder that such people do not think of a certain passage, which must forever explode such a theory, where the Apostle says, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." If these infirmities had been sins, we should have the outrageous anomaly of an apostle of Jesus Christ glorying in his sins!
I fail to penetrate this mystery of the boy-cowherd's mind. Whenever a cow or a buffalo has selected a spot to its liking and is comfortably grazing there, I cannot divine what purpose is served by worrying it, as he insists on doing, till it shifts somewhere else. I suppose it is man's masterfulness glorying in triumph over the powerful creature it has tamed.
I don't know, though," I said; "they both thought I took the watch, and believed all they said. But it was a triumph for them." I sat thinking. "I wonder what Lomax will say? Will he believe that I am a common thief? "What is Tom doing now? Out at play, I suppose, and glorying in his escape.
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