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"Think how embarrassing it would be!" he continued. "You have your drama all staged as you did the night before last only on a larger stage, before a more important audience; and at the denouement you find that, instead of vindicating yourself before the workers in North Valley, you have convicted yourself before the public of the state.
His conscientious strictness of speech, his serious reproof of calumnies, his charitable construction of every case which has two sides; 'his simplicity and godly sincerity; his rule of referring all events to providential direction, and his invariable habit of vindicating the divine goodness under dispensations apparently the most unfavorable."
"I profess, my good lady," replied I, "that had any one but you made such a declaration, I should have thought it as capricious as that of the clergyman, who, without vindicating his false reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old Mumpsimus to the modern Sumpsimus." "Well," answered my aunt, "I must explain my inconsistency in this particular, by comparing it to another.
"I'm not such a devil as to want to ruin her for the fun of the thing. I tell you she's straight as straight as I am crooked. And you've got to believe in her whether you want to or not. That if you like is the obvious." He broke off, breathing hard, yet in a fashion oddly triumphant, as if in vindicating the girl he had somehow vindicated himself also.
Now and then, the audience criticised in whispers the "undue latitude" allowed by the Judge, to the District Solicitor; but their "exceptions" were informal, and the prosecution received no serious or important rebuff. Was the accused utterly callous, or paralyzed by consciousness of her crime; or biding her time for a dramatic outburst of vindicating testimony?
I am not insensible, brother Shandy, that when a man whose profession is arms, wishes, as I have done, for war, it has an ill aspect to the world; and that, how just and right soever his motives the intentions may be, he stands in an uneasy posture in vindicating himself from private views in doing it.
His Life of Knox ranks high among biographies for the ability and learning which it displays, and was the means of vindicating the great Reformer from a cloud of prejudice and misunderstanding in which he had been enveloped. It was followed by a Life of Andrew Melville , Knox's successor as the leader of the Reformers in Scotland, also a work of great merit.
I drove straight to the Hôtel de la Poste, careless that my tormentors were accompanying me; they could do me no more harm, and Tiler was at hand to help in vindicating our position. There was no Tiler at the Hôtel de la Poste; no Tiler in Brieg. Only a brief telegram from him conveying unwelcome and astounding intelligence.
The law of the nobler nature lay in him as it were annihilated; he thought there was no such thing; but when nature's great voice was heard without also, and those 'bloody instructions he had taught returned to him'; when that voice of the people, which was the voice of God to him, echoed with its doom the voice within, and 'sweet religion, with its divine appeals 'a rhapsody of words' no longer, came, to second that great argument, the blind instincts were overpowered in him, the lesser usurping nature was dethroned, the angelic nature arose, and had her hour, and shed parting gleams of glory on those fleeting days and nights; and he came forth, to die at last, not dragged like a beast with a manly step with heroic grandeur, vindicating the heroic type in nature, of that form he wore, vindicating the violated law, accepting his doom, bowing to its ignominy, a man, a member of society, a reconciled and accepted member of the commonweal.
What, after all this, were the pin-pricks daily, hourly inflicted by the press, the post, the tongues of indignant associates, all intent on vindicating the honour of a community he had so wantonly attacked? What were squibs, caricatures, saucy verses, anonymous letters, cold looks from former friends, hot taunts from casual acquaintances?
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