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And then came the awful hour of conviction, the face of that wonderful man whose preaching had stirred all souls, and then those fearful days of penance, that darkness of the tomb, that dying to the world, those solemn vows, and the fearful struggles by which they had been followed.
It struck him as comic that the upshot of the journey should be that he was doing penance for the Pymeuts, but he couldn't smile with that offended archangel in front of him. "Thirty miles over the ice, in the face of a norther, hasn't been so 'easy' even for me. And I'm not old, nor sick no, nor frightened, Brother Paul."
One day I saw him preparing for mass; and because he had difficulty in getting on his robe, showed evident signs of anger. One of the nuns remarked: "The Bishop is going to perform a passionate mass." Some of the others exclaimed: "Are you not ashamed to speak so of my lord!" And she was rewarded with a penance.
"Nay, punish me!" cried Rameri. "If I commit a folly I am ready to bear the consequences." Ameni looked pleased at the vehement boy, and would willingly have shaken him by the hand and stroked his curly head, but the penance he proposed for Rameri was to serve a great end, and Ameni would not allow any overflow of emotion to hinder him in the execution of a well considered design.
That we do, as an apology to others and to ourselves for not reaching the mark of a good and equal life. But it does not satisfy us, whilst we thrust it on the notice of our companions. It may throw dust in their eyes, but does not smooth our own brow, or give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad. We do penance as we go.
When one of these highly destined servants of the Great King fails in his duty, when he cannot pardon the sinner, when he looks churlishly upon a child, or condemns the innocent amusements of the young and happy, when he makes the sweet Sabbath a day of penance instead of praise of tyranny instead of rest, when he has no charity for backsliders, no sympathy for the sorrowful, no toleration for the contradictors of his own particular theory do we not feel that his very existence is a blasphemy, and his preaching a presumption!"
Then he added: "It has guided him. Whenever ye get them wicked thoughts about shouldherin' a gun and flashin' a pike, come round to confession, Flaherty, and it's the good penance I'll give ye to dhrive the devil's temptation away from ye." "I will that, Father Cahill," said Flaherty, hurriedly, and the men went their different ways. O'Connell did everything for Peg since she was an infant.
The colonel commanding the gendarmerie at Hamburg notified to the exiled inhabitants that those who did not leave the town within the prescribed time would receive fifty blows with a cane and afterwards be driven out. But if penance may be commuted with priests so it may with gendarmes.
That is why the necessity for a penance had impressed itself on the mind of Gracieuse. "Come, my Ramuntcho," she recommended, as she walked away, "omit nothing of what you must say."
Hawthorne has admirably illustrated this in the penance of Mr. Dimmesdale. With all the soil that is upon Rousseau, I cannot help looking on him as one capable beyond any in his generation of being divinely possessed; and if it happened otherwise, when we remember the much that hindered and the little that helped in a life and time like his, we shall be much readier to pity than to condemn.
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