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In another room we are deciding that the Government and experts shall be allowed, without trial or discussion, to immure any one's body, damn any one's soul, and dispose of unborn generations with the levity of a pagan god. We are putting the official on the throne while he is still in the dock.
If she does not fall in love or marry before May, when she will be twenty-one years of age, she will immure herself in a convent, as I am pledged not to prevent her." The conversation ended unsatisfactorily just here. In the beginning of February Sir Lemuel Levison, with his daughter and her chaperone, went up to London for her third season.
It never was so since Eden; but none the less I feel it ought to be; and I am oppressed by the thought that among the earliest walls which rose upon this broad meadow of Montreal were those built to immure the innocence of such young girls as these and shut them from the life we find so fair. Wouldn't you like to know who was the first that took the veil in this wild new country?
Though she had parted with her husband, who was now on his way to banishment, she had still the children with her; and, cruellest torture of all! these were now to be torn from her. One evening a devoted friend came to inform her that a body of men were to arrive next morning and take her children, even the baby from her breast, and immure them in a convent.
"Truly the question exceedeth my knowledge. This is not a country to immure females, and the custom causes us of America little thought." "The usage hath its abuses," continued the dealer in contraband, speaking thoughtfully; "but it is not without its good. There are many of the weak and vain, that would be happier in the cloisters, than if left to the seductions and follies of life.
"What, stay at Grey Abbey all May and June?" said Lady Selina, evidently discrediting so unlikely a story, and thinking it all but impossible that her brother should immure himself at Grey Abbey during the London season. "It's true, my lady," said Griffiths, oracularly; as if her word were necessary to place the countess's statement beyond doubt.
But a true Spartan mother thou art: hard and stern as the old matron who bricked up her son Pausanius, bringing the first stone to immure him, hard and stern, I say, to the worthless, but full of majestic tenderness to the worthy.
If I could not be strong to prevail with my own friend and fellow-labourer, with Crasweller, who was the first to come, and who should have entered the college with an heroic grandeur, how could I even desire any other to immure himself? how persuade such men as Barnes, or Tallowax, or that pettifogger Exors, to be led quietly up through the streets of the city? "And you?" I asked again.
"What was Oliver's enmity towards you, that he should immure you here all these years?" "I had served him too well. He feared lest the Shedder of Blood should become the Avenger of Blood." "Are you sorry?" "Sorry!" cried the Prisoner, with a kind of scream. "Had he a thousand lives, had I a thousand hands, I would do the same deed to-morrow."
No matter how well-to-do in money and gear people may be, if they leave the beaten tracks of civilization and immure themselves in the wilderness they will have to learn to help themselves or else suffer hardship.
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