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That month of November saw him master absolute wherever he was and he used his power autocratically. At Huy, he had a number of prisoners executed. At Louvain, at Brussels, he gave fresh examples of his relentlessness as an overlord. Amplissima Collectio, ed. E. Martene, iv. Rerum Leodiensim. Opus Adriani de Veteri Busco, p. 1343. This also appears in Excerpta ex Amelgardi.
A blunder, a slight negligence, any disobedience of orders down came reprimand, suspension, arrest, with an iron certitude, a relentlessness quite like Nature's. Apparently he was without imagination. He had but little sense of humour, and no understanding of a joke. He drank water and sucked lemons for dyspepsia, and fancied that the use of pepper had caused a weakness in his left leg.
Perhaps, at sight of the relentlessness in his eyes, hope left her, and she sank down on a chair and buried her face in her hands, her voice broken by sobs. "It is my fault, and I am justly punished. I have no right to you I was wicked, I was selfish to marry you. I have ruined your life."
"I wouldn't put it above 'em," said he, cheerfully. "We should have thought of the windows." "Thank God, we didn't," he cried. He went out into the storm with the song of the lark in his heart. "God, what a beautiful place the world is!" he was saying to himself, and all the while the sleet was stinging his radiant face with the relentlessness of angry bees.
So he stood for awhile in debate with himself, the relentlessness of the executioner warring obdurately with the tenderness of the lover and while he did so a group of three horsemen came into view on the highway, moving slowly toward his house.
He should have the alert brain of a Robespierre, the physical strength of a Danton, the relentlessness of a Marat. He should be a giant in sheer brute force, a tiger in caution, an elephant in weight, and a mouse in stealthiness! Name of a name! but 'twas only hate that could give such powers to any man! Hebert, in the guard-room, owned to his doubts.
"But surely a man may do his work without giving up everything he holds dear," persisted Helen. "'Forsaketh not all that he hath," quoted the old lady softly. "Yes, but that's not for everybody," insisted Helen. "'Whosoever," quoted Mrs. Macgregor again, with a stern relentlessness in her tone. "Ay, there will be no slipping out from under yon."
"Hurry, Joy, train's coming," was all he said, and caught her arm, whisking her aboard. She pulled back, but that made no difference. He had her established in a seat, with what Phyllis called his "genial medical relentlessness," in spite of her appeals. "But I can't go!" she protested weakly from her seat, as the train pulled out of the station.
I was momentarily sobered by the earnestness with which he brought home to me the relentlessness of our civilization. It seemed incredible. I should have learned a lesson in that store.
A look that meant, NEVER SAY DIE. Curiously, even as I fought desperately I compared him with that other lad I had known, Andy Jackson. And this one, though not so powerful, frightened me the more in his relentlessness.
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