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For not only are women incapable of practising, they cannot comprehend magnanimity. Lord Ormont's argumentative reverie to the above effect had been pursued over and over. He knew that the country which broke his military career and ridiculed his newspaper controversy was unforgiven by him. He did not reflect on the consequences of such an unpardoning spirit in its operation on his mind.
For the first time she had been brought face to face with sin and falsehood, and hers was the unpardoning white condemnation of an angel to whom sin is unknown and falsehood impossible. That such knowledge should have come through him of all men made the thing more unbearable. Surprised and irritated by the pale tragedy of her aspect, Hunter stared, waiting for her to speak. "I was on the stairs.
They could trifle with the curse or unpardoning prophecy of a witch, but not with the pardon of a priest. Here was one of the rare cases where Dickens, in a real and human sense, did suffer from the lack of culture. For the rest, Wilkie Collins is these two elements: the mechanical and the mystical; both very good of their kind.
What more heavy punishment could be meted to the original sinner, than to set him in eternal contemplation of the hideous fruitfulness of his initial sin! "I have said sin, because sin, only, is offense in the eyes of the gods. But sin and error are one in the unpardoning eye of nature.
To this knowledge the subtle sympathy for Millicent was perhaps attributable. But navigation with pen and thought among the shoals and depths of a woman's heart is hazardous and uncertain. Coupled with this as only a woman could couple contradictions was an unpardoning abhorrence for the deceit practised.
For not only are women incapable of practising, they cannot comprehend magnanimity. Lord Ormont's argumentative reverie to the above effect had been pursued over and over. He knew that the country which broke his military career and ridiculed his newspaper controversy was unforgiven by him. He did not reflect on the consequences of such an unpardoning spirit in its operation on his mind.
Such readiness, he had thought, would mean the healing of the dreadful wound, whatever it was; forgiveness on the father's part of some terrible wrong-doing, forgiveness on the son's part of equally terrible hardness of heart. Instead he found a cruel and ridiculous mortification, made permanent by thirty-two unpardoning years.
And yet he never succeeded in killing me. It required the state law of California, a hanging judge, and an unpardoning governor to send me to the scaffold for striking a prison guard with my fist. I shall always contend that that guard had a nose most easily bleedable. I was a bat-eyed, tottery skeleton at the time. I sometimes wonder if his nose really did bleed.
"You have always been my good friends." "And you have no other charge against him?" Laetitia was milder in saying, "He is unpardoning." "Name one instance, Laetitia." "He has turned Crossjay out of his house, interdicting the poor boy ever to enter it again." "Crossjay," said Willoughby, "was guilty of a piece of infamous treachery."
Certainly the despairing anguish that she had felt, the submission to his unpardoning wrath, the tacit agreement that the discovery gave him license to do anything he liked with her, not only then but throughout the future all this pertained to a state of mind which could be coldly recollected, but which could not be warmly revived. How he had knocked her about!
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