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The incidents of the closing scene are simple, but they are heart-breaking in their pathos and awful in their desolation. The fugitive Houseman finds Aram here, and spurns him as a whimpering lunatic. Then, in this midnight hour and this appalling place, alone in the presence of God, the murderer lifts his hands toward heaven, confesses his crime, and falls at the foot of the cross.
"that pale, that white-faced shore, Whose foot spurns back tho ocean's swelling tide," they reared a sinewy and stalwart race, whose "morning drum-beat encircles the world." And History taught Ivy to reverence man. But there was one respect in which Ivy was both pupil and teacher.
"If you could realize how bitterly galling to my own pride and self respect is this appeal to a man who hates and spurns all whom I love, I think, sir, that even you would pity me so heartily, that your hardened heart would melt into one last farewell message of forgiveness to your unfortunate daughter. I would rather carry her one word of love than all your fortune." "No I come of a flinty race.
King Agamemnon was the first to do so. "Tell me, Ulysses," said he, "will he save the ships from burning, or did he refuse, and is he still furious?" Ulysses answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, Achilles will not be calmed, but is more fiercely angry than ever, and spurns both you and your gifts.
Such were a few of the burdens which the people of Upper Canada were compelled to bear in the by-gone epoch when tyranny reigned supreme throughout the Province: when "the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes," were the all too frequent portion of such of the inhabitants as dared to call in question the righteousness of existing ordinances.
Oh God! to die without guilt to be cut off in his youth to be shot as a traitor and that simply for obeying the wishes of the officer whom he loved! the son of the man who now spurns all supplication from his presence. It is inhuman it is unjust and Heaven will punish the hard-hearted man who murders him yes, murders him! for such a punishment for such an offence is nothing less than murder."
"I demand of thee, then," said the youth, "by what charm it is that I am thus altered in mind and in wishes that I think no longer of deer or dog, of bow or bolt that my soul spurns the bounds of this obscure glen that my blood boils at an insult from one by whose stirrup I would some days since have run for a whole summer's morn, contented and honoured by the notice of a single word?
I shall wait for her inspiration, to think; for her will, to will; for her commands, to act. In all things I will be her auxiliary, more than that, her slave; and if she still repulses me with that dainty foot, that snowy hand, I will bear it resignedly, asking, in return for such obedience one only favor, that of kissing the foot that spurns me, of bathing with tears the hand that threatens me."
'The spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, the loneliness of one who, in all the crowd descries none to trust these are the wages that the world ever gives to its noblest, who live but to help it and be misunderstood by it, and as these are the wages of all who with self-devotion would serve God by serving the world for its good, they were paid in largest measure to 'the Servant of the Lord. His claims were ridiculed, His words of wisdom thrown back on Himself; none were so poor but could afford to despise Him as lower than they, His love was repulsed, surely He drank the bitterest cup of contempt.
I am an insufferable booby, an eternal lunatic, for having first thought of quarrelling with her. But it is too late! I might have foreseen the advantages I give a woman like her. She openly, magnanimously tells me what my intents are, and then spurns at them. She keeps her anger under indeed, but does not repress its energy; a proof of the subjection in which she holds her passions.
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