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Updated: May 20, 2025
The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and, half crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go, knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor. A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another.
"Thou hed better give me a fresh suit o' clothes; these are fair worn out and L20. I'll be i' Hull early to-morrow, and I'll tak' t' varry first ship I can get." "How do I know thou will?" "Thou'lt hev to trust my word it's about as good as thine, I reckon." O but the way of the transgressor is hard! There was nothing else to be done.
It isn't just the way of the Transgressor that's hard. Nobody's way is any too easy! The door-key, though, was exactly where the old Butler had said it would be, under the door mat, and the key itself turned astonishingly cordially in the rusty old lock.
It looks, too, as if 'the way of the transgressor' were a darned hard way. Straight ahead open and aboveboard for you, my girl!" Then she went quietly to the desk and transacted her own business; but her beautiful day was clouded. Her heart was no longer leaping exultantly. She was sickened and sorrowful over the evident nerve strain and discomfort which Eileen seemed to have brought upon herself.
Taken and held in this state of mind, the transgressor is confusedly as well as terribly awakened, and he needs first of all to have this experience clarified, and know precisely for what he is trembling, and why. This panic and consternation must depart, and a calm intelligent anxiety must take its place.
If upon an impartial search he is found to have wronged his brother through ignorance or weakness, he must judge charitably of him, and not be harsh and severe towards him, in his carriage or censure. But if it clearly appear, upon impartial inquiry, that he did the injury knowingly and wilfully, then the offended brother must deal with him as a wilful transgressor.
This is the comfort of the true servant of God, and the misery of the transgressor. His lot is cast once and for all, and he can but wait in hope or in dread. Men on their death-beds have declared, that no one could form a right idea of the value of time till he came to die; but if this has truth in it, how much more truly can it be said after death!
In this transgressor there was a latent spark of honour, a sense of justice that might have been developed to great causes, if some strong nature, seeing his weaknesses, had not condoned them, but had appealed to the natural chivalry of an impressionable, vain, and weak character. He struggled to meet Hume's eyes, and doing so, he gained confidence and said: "I will try to live.
"That is all there is to tell," she replied, "but I want to add, for myself, that I think Miss Minturn is 'a brick, as the boys would put it, and I take off my hat to her" turning to Katherine with a low, graceful bow "if she will accept the homage from the chief transgressor, who to make all possible atonement proposes to give the best spread of the season in her honor, in place of the next meeting, if the league will vote me the privilege and she will signify her pardon and approval by shaking hands with me."
A 'harikari' sentence saves the nation much trouble and expense. A coroner's verdict of 'suicide by request, is much more simple, and just as good as a lengthy criminal prosecution, besides affording the transgressor a choice of weapons.
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