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To many a weary prisoner it proved death itself and so the gate to wider life. To one man it was purgatory but short removed from hell, and that he came through it unscathed was due to that which he had at first regarded as a misfortune, but which, by shutting him into a world of his own with those he loved, kept his heart sweet and fresh and unassoiled.
Then after a pause, Maggie said: "I think I have read of that somewhere in anovel lovers caught by the tide." "Yes, I daresay you have. I was thinking of two lovers who were so overcome with happiness that they decided that they would not trust themselves again to the waves and storms of life, but would let the calm, slow tide of death take them away with all their happiness unassoiled."
"It would be too terrible indeed, my dear child, if we were to live again unassoiled, unpurified, in all our miserable imperfections. But these have been removed by the priest's absolution, by the sinner's repentance in this world and by purgatory in the next. Those who have the happiness to live in the sight of God are without stain."
"Oh, ay an hogshead full!" "Stuff and folly." "Thou unassoiled villain, tell me them this minute, or " "Thou wilt drop from the pillion? By all means, an' it so like thee. I shall but be left where I am." "Ned! I will nip thee like a pasty, an' thou torment me thus." "Drastis!" 'Twas all froth and thistle-down." "I have done, Ned. I will not speak to thee again this month."
We should have gone together to England where I could easily have got a curacy easily." Hilda looked up. "Would you like to marry me now?" she asked eagerly, but he shook his head. "You don't understand," he said. "It is the dear sin God has turned my back upon." Then it came to her that he had asked for no caress. He was going unassoiled to his God, with the divine indifference of the dying.
And fifteen days later, I knew that I was a widow that he had died that night, with none to pillow his head or wipe the death-dews from his brow died unassoiled, unatoned with either God or me! And I had done it. Child, my heart was closed up that day as with a wall of stone. It will never open again. It is not my love that is dead it is my heart."
It was easy to conceive death as a hideous personality lurking at the bottom of those rotten stairs, waiting patiently for his victims; not constrained to go abroad for them, knowing that they were creeping to him, creeping and crawling, unassoiled by priest, hindered by no physician, unredeemed by love, deaf, and blind, and dumb!
I know better, they are all ugly. Fanny Crayshaw has just got another. "He climbed the wall of heaven, and saw his love Safe at her singing; and he left his foes In vales of shadow weltering, unassoiled, Immortal sufferers henceforth, in both worlds." It was the middle of April.
Above all, she was insistent that the dying should receive the consolations of religion, and it was a terrible thought to her that either friend or foe should perish unshriven and unassoiled. Her last act at Vaucouleurs, ere we started off in the early dawn of a late February day, was to attend Mass with all her following.
"It is the dear sin God has turned my back upon." Then it came to her that he had asked for no caress. He was going unassoiled to his God, with the divine indifference of the dying. Only his imagination looked backward and forward. And she thought, "It is a little light flame that I have lit with my own taper that has gone out, and presently the grave will extinguish that."
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