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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Well, the man Oi once was, Oi presinted him t' me counthry. So here's what's left av me. But, Barber, punishment's comin' t' ye! Mar-rk me wor-r-rd!" Suddenly Big Tom gave a shout. "Say!" he cried. "Maybe here's a gent that'd like t' try his hand at lickin' me!" For the hall door had opened again, and another visitor was entering breathlessly, anxiously, swiftly.
The vindictiveness of a purposeless hell has, of course, failed ignominiously as a deterrent from crime. We cannot conceive infinite Intelligence inflicting an excruciating and endless punishment simply for punishment's sake. We are superior to such methods ourselves; we refuse to associate them with God.
"Oh yes, sometimes," answered Lasse, who was ashamed to confess that he never chastised the boy. "I don't spare mine either. It'll take something to make a man of such rubbish; punishment's half what he lives on. Then I'll send him up here first thing to-morrow morning; but take care he doesn't show himself in the yard, or there'll be no end of a row!"
"You see that's one thing that's the matter with Charlotte," said Miss Mehitable. "She does hate to think I'm keepin' anything from her and she felt it in the air." "Do you believe she'll visit you in prison? I'll address the jury myself. I maintain that one punishment's enough. You at least deserve a holiday. Say, Mehit, me dear, I've a big surprise for you, too.
But perhaps they think on that account that the punishment's not so great, cried the criminal, shuffling towards this speaker on his knees, and holding up his folded hands; 'whereas it's worse, it's worse a hundred times, to me than any man. Let them know that, sir. Let them know that. They've made it worse to me by giving me so much to do. Stop my execution till they know that!
Mercy! mercy!" shrieked the miserable wretch as he grovelled on his knees before them, and sought to clasp the knees of the man nearest him an attempt which was repulsed with an oath, a look of unutterable loathing, a kick, and a brutal blow on the mouth. "Come, lads, speak up," urged Rogers, wholly unmoved by the interruption, "say what the punishment's to be, and let's have done with it.
I suppose you want to take that away. . . . I didn't realize. . . . Why shouldn't I be happy?" The dim figure on the throne made no answer, and Barbara began to crawl forward. Perhaps God had not heard. . . . But she would spend years crawling through Space. . . . "I want to get it over. No punishment's as bad as this suspense. You know that. . . . Won't you tell me what I'm to do . . .?"
A man takes to "piety" from a thousand different reasons from imitation or from eccentricity, from bravado or from reverence, from shame of the past or from terror of the future, from weakness and from pride, for pleasure's sake or for punishment's sake, in order to be able to judge, or in order to escape being judged, and for a thousand other reasons; but he only becomes truly religious for religion's sake.
"Oh yes, sometimes," answered Lasse, who was ashamed to confess that he never chastised the boy. "I don't spare mine either. It'll take something to make a man of such rubbish; punishment's half what he lives on. Then I'll send him up here first thing to-morrow morning; but take care he doesn't show himself in the yard, or there'll be no end of a row!"
The husband thereupon related his recent achievement, and concluded thus: "So, having kicked up a mort o' trouble, I doan't want to make no more see? An' I stepped here quiet to keep it out of the papers, an' just take what punishment's right an' vitty for marryin' a maid wi'out so much as by your leave. Now, then, caan't 'e do the rest?"
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