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While she sat alone, in the long evenings, she tried to follow him in her thoughts. He was somewhere in the big, warm, dark theatre, watching the little pool of brightness in which Magsie moved, listening to the crisp, raw freshness of Magsie's voice. Night after night he must sit there, drinking in her beauty and charm, torturing himself with the thought of her inaccessibility.
The human fate became more bewildering, more torturing. The clear landscape of Catholic thought upon which he had once looked out was wrapping itself in clouds, falling into new aspects and relations. How marvellous are the chances of human history! The outward ministry had been withdrawn; in its stead this purely spiritual ministry had been offered to him.
Breakers of God's laws; of man's; victims of tricks and legal technicalities, of torturing want and of headlong passion, and of sheer court errors or of perjured testimony here they were, all on the same footing, no discriminations made! To what end?
"What is all this? Why are you torturing yourself? For God's sake, let us be frank with each other " But she pressed his shoulders convulsively. "Wait! wait! It is only a little moment now. I implore you to wait!"
Gently he shook his head, relishing her discomfiture, taking satisfaction in torturing her who had flouted him and his master, in punishing her whom he had every reason to believe guilty. "Your Majesty, I fear, has been ill-informed on that score.
Not only did they prescribe tooth brushes and mouth washes, with all sorts of pastes and powders, but that he should follow it with an invention of the devil for torturing the gums known as "dental floss." To get even with the man who invented the thing Bivens bought him out and stopped its manufacture only to find the scoundrel had invented a new one and had it on the market three weeks later.
"Nurse, do as Fraülein asks," he ordered briefly. The nurse made no comment, but led her patient downstairs at once, found the telephone number of the laboratory at which Rivière had his research-bench, and called for the connection. "What do they say?" asked Elaine after a torturing wait. "They ask me to hold the line." Again a very long wait. "What do they say?" asked Elaine again.
When, like savages, the Wises, the Vallandinghams, the Washingtons, the Stuarts and others stood around the fallen and bleeding hero, and sought by torturing questions to wring from his supposed dying lips some word by which to soil the sublime undertaking, by implicating Gerrit Smith, Joshua R. Giddings, Dr.
Then would begin the torturing of a human soul, the opening of new vistas of despair, the stage be cleared for a new tragedy. The colonel was to find that the chief anxiety of his "shareholders" was not as to the future of the company or as to the success of its trading.
She knew not what road she had taken, beneath what trees she had strayed, so absorbed had she been in her revolt against the unjust sufferings which had so sorely stricken this poor little being, so feeble and so pure, and as yet quite incapable of sin. Was it not abominable that the grip of disease should for weeks have been incessantly torturing her child, whose cry she knew not how to quiet?
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