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Wherefore have I endeavoured to make you as hard as iron, and your hearts as a piece of the nether millstone? Was it, think you, that you might show yourselves women, and that you might go out like a company of innocents to gaze on your mortal foes?
"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven"; and "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones that believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. . . . Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven."
"I'll have him on my hands yet," he thought, morosely. "Confound it! It's hard on me that she disinherited him. He'll be a millstone round my neck as long as he lives." Robert Ferguson had long ago made up his mind with tenderness that he must support Elizabeth, "but I won't supply that boy with money to gamble with!
Another will attract you by her submissiveness; she will be your attendant, follow you romantically about, compromise herself to keep you, and be the millstone about your neck. You will drown yourself some day, but the woman will come to the surface. The least manoeuvring of these women of the world have many nets. The silliest triumph because too foolish to excite distrust.
I've followed it all." "Rejected whom?" said Graham. "The Sleeper?" "Sleeper? No. Ostrog. He was terrible terrible! And he was promised then, promised certainly the next time. Fools they were not to be more afraid of him. Now all the city's his millstone, and such as we dust ground upon it. Dust ground upon it.
"No cry, no groan from my victim betrayed the unhallowed deed, and before the first dawn of day I was driving furiously over the road to the river's bank, from which into the watery depth below I threw this millstone of my life. "When I drove back the morning had dawned. The daylight seemed to pry into the secrets of the past night. I would fain shun it the garish light disturbed me.
"How long wilt Thou delay, O Lord, righteous in judgment? Fulfil Thy promise! Bind Thou Thy millstone about the neck of this wretch, hated and accursed of Thee, and let it drag him down to the uttermost depths of the Lake of Fire, where such as he shall wallow and howl throughout Eternity! She was infinitely more terrible than the lioness who has licked her murdered cubs.
The millstone round his neck had suddenly dropped and he shot upward into the light. The child was leading him into a new and vernal world. He wanted to take her in his arms and press her to his heart. The difference between the glance she now gave him and that she had shot at him at the door of his office that evening came to him and decided him. It was worth it all. "Yes.
"I call all the saints in heaven to witness that as sure as my name is Donovan Kelly so sure is it that I'll be damned to the last most nether millstone before ever I'll undertake to dig a man out of Hoffstein's marble halls again. You'd better watch him, Burke. His skin is about as full as it'll hold." "We'll get back," said Burke briefly.
It's no use talking to me of my wife's virtues. She is a millstone round my neck, with all her virtues. If I had not been a born idiot I should have waited, and married a woman who would have been of some use to me; a woman with high connections " Mr. Kendrew touched his host's arm, and suddenly interrupted him. "To come to the point," he said "a woman like Lady Jane Parnell." Mr.
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