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This renunciation beforehand of all natural ambitions, this systematic putting aside of all longings and all desires, has perhaps been false in idea; it has been too like a foolish, self-inflicted mutilation. Fear, too, has had a large share in it "La peur de ce que j'aime est ma fatalite." I very soon discovered that it was simpler for me to give up a wish than to satisfy it.
A friend calling upon him in the course of the morning found him writing, in a mood of solemn resignation, with one hand over the eye in question, "practising," as he said, "how to read and write with the only eye that would soon be left him." One's first impulse is to treat these self-inflicted sufferings as ridiculous and almost idiotic.
Worse, he might be caught, or give himself up, and was thus a perpetual danger. And probably he wanted money. This being so, it was a singular fact that at the inquest the surgeon who had examined the wound gave it as his most positive opinion that it had been self-inflicted. And it was inflicted with a razor, Henning's own, as was very clearly proved after inquiry.
If, on the contrary, try as I might, the wall proved not wide enough for my footsteps, then I should be entitled to lose the beastly thing, and, as best I could, make my way home to bed. I attained the wall with some difficulty and commenced my self-inflicted ordeal. Two yards further I found myself lying across the wall, my legs hanging down one side, my head overhanging the other.
"Could the wound have been self-inflicted?" asked Merrington. Dr. Holmes pursed his lips. "I can form no definite opinion on that point," he said. "By the direction of the bullet, I should say not." "Have you found the bullet?" "No, it is in the body.
Canning, for the Portland Ministry, sarcastically declined to be moved, observing that the embargo, whatever its motives, was practically the same as Napoleon's system, and England could not submit to being driven to surrender to France even to regain the American market or relieve the Americans from their self-inflicted sufferings.
O'Hara nodded: "Yes". "Well, you may sit and tell me, and ease your poor heart". And a long time O'Hara sat, going into the mighty crime, torturing details, revelling in the vastness of the horror, the sickness of the self-inflicted filth, and pangs of the self-inflicted scalpel. "And why did you do it, my friend?" "Because I worship you...." "Well, perhaps I understand you, crooked soul.
One thing alone can meet the passion of men whether imposed upon them or self-inflicted it is the passion of God in Christ whereby His Love works out its victory. That alone can harness to itself the vitality and heroism of men, which else will riot away in waste or flag in disillusion.
From a reliable source the authors have an account of a man in Northern India who as a means of self-inflicted penance held his arm aloft for the greater part of each day, bending the fingers tightly on the palms. After a considerable time the nails had grown or been forced through the palms of the hands, making their exit on the dorsal surfaces.
Her eyes were twinkling since she meant to treat all these allusions so lightly as to disarm his own seriousness. "As a self-inflicted penalty I'll marry you." "I wonder if you would." "On my word of honor, and meanwhile our tea is getting cold. One lump, isn't it?"
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