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But the barrister's cold-blooded synopsis of a thrilling crime proved to be too much for his hearer's nerves. Hume stood up. The man was a born fighter. He could take, his punishment, but only on his feet. Again he cried in anguish: "No! It was no dream, but a foul murder. And they blame me!" Brett closed the book with a snap.
The continued deliberate violation by a large number of the prominent and influential citizens of the Territory of Utah of the laws of the United States for the prosecution and punishment of polygamy demands the attention of every department of the Government.
Low was quite against taking him, and he took this occasion to tell his wife that they had both been to blame in spoiling him as they had done, and that he considered his present ill-behaviour as a punishment which he himself deserved, for having suffered his boy to be so spoiled. "Mrs. Low had not much to say; she thought her husband was right.
Henley, or perhaps it was only as a punishment for her presumptuous remarks that Madame started the subject on the following day to the drawing-master himself. "Miss Arkwright says your trees are all one, Mr. Henley," she began. She knows not the kind even."
However, Macdonald will keep a somewhat stricter watch; for, as I told him, it concerns Sir Alexander's honour all the more that she should not get loose, now that those who committed her to his charge are under suspicion about their politics Ah! you see the secret is getting out now, the reason of her punishment.
The meaning of his words, I humbly conceive, is simply this The time is come when the persecutions, predicted by Christ as a sign of the approaching destruction of Jerusalem, must begin at us. And if we the righteous who are innocent, have to endure so many "fiery trials," what will the dreadful punishment be of our disobedient persecutors?
"I would not have allowed another person to share a particle of my glory. I alone knew of the deed; I alone counselled it; I alone did it." "Then be the consequence," cried he, "on your own head!" "'Tis but just," returned Sophronia. "Mine was the sole honour; mine, therefore, should be the only punishment." The tyrant at this began to feel the accession of his old wrath.
Nor does there seem to be any punishment inflicted upon those who manage to transform the Government itself into a shield to protect toughs and criminals in their assaults upon men and property, when those assaults are in the interest of capital.
Indeed, did any rash inhabitant of Buenos Aires refrain from obeying it, the result of his independence was that he betrayed himself an open enemy of the Dictator, and he met with the inevitable punishment for this, which was in any case imprisonment, and possibly death.
The freebooter durst not disobey, for the army of the Prince was now so near him that punishment might have followed; besides, he was a politician as well as a robber, and was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services by being refractory on this occasion.
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