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But Christianity, shaking all this off, would present the body to God as a pure and holy sacrifice, as so much of the material world conquered from the appetites and lusts, and from the devil whose abode they were. This was the meaning of the fastings and scourgings, the penances and night-watchings; it was this which sent St.
Veritable love no man knew better would have impelled him to save himself and her from a degrading position. Was he committing himself to a criminality which the law would visit? Hardly that until he entered into possession of money fraudulently obtained. In miserable night-watchings, he fell to the most sordid calculations.
Though your limbs are a little rheumatic, and you do not so often as you were wont, when your hair was black as raven's wing, raise your hands to take down the armour that you have long since hung up, you know and feel with pride that it has been charmed by due night-watchings, and will yet serve many a good turn, should occasion require your service for woman in danger.
The worn eyes of the elder, strained by night-watchings, drooped under the young, dark ones, reinforced by their splendor of brows and lashes. "It was very sweet of you to come," she said in a lifeless voice. "Without an invitation! You did not expect me to be quite so sweet as that?" Mrs. Thorne did not reply to this challenge. "You are not alone?" she asked gently. "I am alone, dear Mrs. Thorne.
Tom was very hard to her, she used to think, in her long night-watchings, to her who had always loved him so; and then she strove to be contented with that hardness, and to require nothing.
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