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If they die with their hands imbrued with the blood of their countrymen, and are lazy bad characters, the stone canoe sinks with them, leaving them up to their chins in water, that they may for ever behold the happiness of the good, and struggle in vain to reach the island of bliss. The 17th.
But alas! for the kind and generous Prelate, to be murdered on the hearth where he so often entertained the stranger with Christian charity and princely bounty and that by a wretch, a monster! a portentous growth of blood and cruelty! bred up in the very hall where he has imbrued his hands in his benefactor's blood!
They also felt that he was irrevocably one of themselves, having imbrued his hands in white man's blood more than once, and already made his name terrible on that part of the frontier. "They should be here by this time," said Ruyter, in Dutch, to one of the men at his side. "Why did you send them off before I returned?" He said this with a look of annoyance.
A dull, droning chant, telling how the God of Vengeance rode upon the wind, swift to loose the fetters of the chained, to make desert the rebellious land; with a chorus, or refrain, in which Ben's wild, melancholy cry sounded like the wail of an avenging spirit: "That in the blood of enemies Thy foot imbrued may be: And of thy dogs dipped in the same The tongues thou mayest see."
Now if the purpose of their seclusion and of the expiatory rites which they have to perform is, as we have been led to believe, no other than to shake off, frighten, or appease the angry spirit of the slain man, we may safely conjecture that the similar purification of homicides and murderers, who have imbrued their hands in the blood of a fellow-tribesman, had at first the same significance, and that the idea of a moral or spiritual regeneration symbolised by the washing, the fasting, and so on, was merely a later interpretation put upon the old custom by men who had outgrown the primitive modes of thought in which the custom originated.
When he spoke in this strain, I spoke loud also, and said that as he, by his disclosure, had put me in the position of a superior, I must assume that position, and frankly say that my indignation was stirred by the memory that one of the family of Orleans had imbrued his hands in my father's blood, and that another now wished to obtain from me an abdication of the throne.
Indeed, now that he had an opportunity of seeing a little more of his gigantic companion, he began to feel a strange kind of pity and liking for him, but he shuddered and felt repelled when he thought of the human blood in which his hands must have been imbrued, for as yet he had not heard of the defence of himself which Gascoyne had made in the widow's cottage.
"I am persuaded," the despatch ends, "that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood, and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future."
Come, Francisco, take my hand, and let us forget what is past." "The hand that is imbrued with my mother's blood, perhaps!" exclaimed Francisco. "Never!" "Not so, by God!" exclaimed Cain. "No, no; not quite so bad as that. In my mood I struck your mother; I grant it. I did not intend to injure her, but I did, and she died. I will not lie that is the fact.
"Can you not find some excuse for my vexation, knowing, as you do that the wretch was a vile assassin a man whose hands have been imbrued in the blood of my own father?" "Was he not acquitted of the charge?" "He was but only from lack of evidence to convict; yet, although acquitted by the law, not surer is fate than that he is an assassin."
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