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Nevil in spite of unforgiveable interludes was liable to be tripped up by the fact that, after all, she was his sister; and her aggression was proof that, in her own queer fashion, she loved him. Half the trouble was that the love of each for the other took precisely the form that other could least appreciate or understand: no uncommon dilemma in family life.
Had what I had done caused or in any way hastened my father's death? Admitting that Harry's fault was great and unforgiveable, would it not have been better had I allowed it to remain in obscurity, at least for a time? Was the keeping of the family name unsullied, was the untarnished honour of our ancient family motto, "Clean, within and without," of greater importance than my father's life?
You, too, would have forgotten her folly in what she found to say, as Arnold did; you too would have drawn faith and courage from her face. One would not be irreverent, but if this woman were convicted of the unforgiveable sin, she could explain it, and obtain justification rather than pardon. Her horizon had narrowed, she sought now only that it should enfold them both.
For months they had waged a battle of tongues and temper and tears, with Mátaji high-priestess of the Inside with the family matchmaker and the family guru, whom to offend was the unforgiveable sin. Had he not power to call down upon an entire household the curse of the gods?
But the unforgiveable confronts us, and our new system of government has admitted to power people capable of abrogating penny post and abolishing penny-a-mile railway travel, and of raising telephone charges because the more the subscribers the more the expense.
And now seventeen years afterwards, the bracelet had drawn him back to them both; saved him, perhaps, from the unforgiveable sin of throwing up the game. On he walked, along the same mossy path, almost in a dream. He had found the Tusks. His High-Tower Princess was waiting his 'Star far-seen.
The World Even the world, so mondain as it is, still holds instinctively and as a matter of faith unquestionable that those who have died by the altar are worthier than those who have lived by it, when to die was duty. Blasphemy I begin to understand now what Christ meant when he said that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost was unforgiveable, while speaking against the Son of Man might be forgiven.
He wrinkled his nose in a wicked grimace. "Bad boy!" said Lilámani's lips, but her eyes said other things. He knew, and she knew that he knew how, in her heart, she shared his innate antagonism. Was it not of her own bestowing a heritage of certain memories ineffaceable, unforgiveable during her early days of marriage?
"If your mother had asked me that question," she retorted with spirit "I should have told her that he was the man who got me safely out of the theatre after you . . ." She checked herself. She did not want to say the unforgiveable thing. "You see," she said, more quietly, "you had disappeared. . . ." "My mother is an old woman," said Derek stiffly. "Naturally I had to look after her.
Then I will ascertain your true feeling; and, if it be against me, go away for ever. On recovering from her surprise, Barbara's remorse was such that she felt herself absolutely unforgiveable. She should have regarded him as an afflicted being, and not have been this slave to mere eyesight, like a child. To follow him and entreat him to return was her first thought.
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