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Updated: May 25, 2025
Let the courage be restored to him of the faith that for him too the Saviour died!" In a spasm of realisation and self-horror the unhappy Tannhäuser hides his face and sinks to the earth. The angry lords have calmed under the Princess's exhortation. They see in her an angel descended from Heaven to announce the holy will of God.
The bitterness expanded into a hatred like the gleam on a knife blade; his hands, spare and hard, grew rigid with the desire to choke a thick throat. Then the rage sank before a swift self-horror, an overwhelming conviction of his relapse into unutterable sin.
And all through no fault of that poor, mean, ugly pedant, who indeed had been my victim whom I had robbed of honour and of life. Never man felt self-horror as I felt it then, self-loathing and self-contempt.
He looked back over his long career of remorseless success with something of the self-horror he had read in her eyes as he had placed the incriminating papers in her frail hands. And as she had cast contamination from her, so he promised himself he would thrust predatory greed from his own life. They were both born anew. They would both be true to their own souls.
An idea had occurred to her so monstrous that she was stricken with a sense of guilt and self-horror such as she had never known. xviii All that night Sally dwelt with her terrible temptation. The more she shrank from it the more stealthily it returned to her, like the slow fingers of an incoming tide.
I know you must be impatient to get word to Dal at the first possible moment it means so much to him. More than meat and drink.... And then there's his poor old father ..." Cally stared at him, speechless. There was no exaltation now; no more soaring. Rooted in her tracks she stood, yet seemed to herself to shrink and recoil from him, in her sudden self-horror. What, oh what, had she done?
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