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Was it as a husband that he loved her? Did their intercourse have that intangible quality of safety that belonged to married life? And was it not as a mistress rather than a wife that, in their isolation, she watched his moods so jealously? A mistress! Her lips parted, and she repeated the word aloud, for self-torture is human. Her mind dwelt upon their intercourse.
And when this plan is not adopted although very often the two things run side by side we find fasting and other forms of self-torture practised because of the abnormal conditions produced. It is not argued or implied that in all this there was of necessity deliberate imposture. That would imply the possession of greater knowledge than actually existed.
Presently the inquiry for him ceased, and he was relieved by hearing an instrumental piece begin. Following on that presentation of Madge came self-torture for his unfaithfulness. He scourged himself into what he considered to be his duty. He recalled with an effort all Madge's charms, mental and bodily, and he tried to break his heart for her.
An' ye can't contradict a lie somehow without makin' it look more a truth than ever, that's the way o' the thing. An' it do stick! Passon himself 'ull find that out, it do stick, it do reely now!" Meantime, Walden, left alone, gave himself up to a tumult of misery and self-torture.
But it is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. Mediaevalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods Mediaevalism is real Christianity, and the mediaeval Christ is the real Christ.
Sleeny walked moodily down the street, engaged in that self-torture which is the chief recreation of unhappy lovers. He steeped his heart in gall by imagining Maud in love with another. His passion stimulated his slow wits into unwonted action, until his mind began to form exasperating pictures of intimacies which drove him half mad.
But in her mind the phrase repeated itself vexatiously: "your man." IN PLACE AND IN ACCOUNT NOTHING 1 Henry IV., v. 1. The power of self-torture which the human heart possesses is well-nigh infinite.
With cruel self-torture she dwelt upon the terrible dread, for she thought she had noticed that the best success often followed when she had expected the worst result. Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. The girl, whether she desired to do so or not, could not help looking in.
"It was a protest," says Clarke, "against pleasure as the end of life ... It proved the reality of the religious sentiment to a skeptical age.... If this long period of self-torture has left us no other gain, let us value it as a proof that in man religious aspiration is innate, unconquerable, and able to triumph over all that the world hopes and over all that it fears."
Unlike their ilk of India, they do not practice self-torture for long periods, but only upon a certain day in each year. Then, stripped to the waist, these poor zealots go chanting a dolorous strain, and beating themselves unsparingly upon the back with the sharp-spined cactus, or soap-weed, until they are a revolting sight to look upon.
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