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"That is not the question now, Sir," said Fleda, who was trembling painfully. "I cannot do evil that good may come." "But evil?" said he, detaining her "what evil do I ask of you? to remove evil, I do." Fleda clasped her hands, but answered calmly "I cannot make any pretences, Sir; I cannot promise to give what is not in my power." "In whose power, then?" said he, quickly.
Nevertheless, he rarely saw him in her company that the displeasure he felt was not manifested by a frown, or some word that smote painfully upon the ear of his child. Possessing an active, independent mind, Andrew failed not to excite the displeasure of his father in many ways.
"The brave cannoneer is saved!" murmured Gotzkowsky in a low voice to himself, and he too folded his hands in prayer. Was it a prayer of gratitude, or did it proceed from the despairing heart of a father? His countenance had a bright and elevated expression; but as he turned his eyes down on his daughter, still on her knees, they darkened, and his features twitched convulsively and painfully.
"We'll have to doctor them with pen and ink," said Tom. So for another hour or so they occupied themselves painfully in putting their invitations into mourning. The result was not wholly satisfactory, for a card dipped edgeways into a shallow plate of ink is apt to take on its black unevenly.
He devolved upon a meaner ideal than that of conservative good citizenship, which had been his chief moral experience: the money he had already made without effort and without merit bred its unholy self-love in him; he began to honor money, especially money that had been won suddenly and in large sums; for money that had been earned painfully, slowly, and in little amounts, he had only pity and contempt.
A woman jumps to it while a man is crawling round on his hands and knees in the dark, looking for it with a match." Gillian laughed and got up to go, and Lady Arabella whose rheumatism was quite real at the moment rose rather painfully and hobbled down the room beside her, her thin, delicate old hand resting on the silver knob of a tall, ebony walking-stick. "Now, remember," urged Gillian.
And I went painfully because of my weakness, and because also of the great stones; and sometimes I went along a spot of earth where the river had been used to flow in flood-time, and which was now bare of everything but stones; and the sun, now risen high, poured down on everything a great flood of fierce light and scorching heat, and burnt me sorely, so that I almost fainted.
As a climber on a mountain-peak may look down the vale up which he had painfully toiled for many days and see the dusty path lying, like a sinuous snake, down all along it, so, when we get up yonder, 'Thou shalt remember all the way by which the Lord thy God hath led thee these many years in the wilderness, and shalt see the green pastures and the still waters, valleys of the shadow of death, and burning roads with sharp flints, which have all brought thee hither at last.
He looked carelessly round, and then said loudly: "Say, Joe, so you've buried Blanche, have you? Poor old girl!" There was a heavy silence. No one replied. Jacques started to his feet, gazed around searchingly, painfully, and presently gave a great gasp. His hands made a chafing motion in the air, and then blood showed on his lips and chin. He drew a handkerchief from his breast.
But, friends, we are making inroads upon orthodoxy that orthodox Christians are painfully aware of, and what think you will be left of their fearful doctrines fifty or a hundred years from tonight? What will become of their endless hell their doctrine of the future anguish of the soul; their doctrine of the eternal burning and never-ending gnashing of teeth.
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