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This would have cleared up the mist but spoilt the feeling of wrong-doing. Lady Thistleton was large and recumbent and averse to sight-seeing, but after a heart-to-heart talk with her daughters had seen to it that Damaris had no time for moping.
Harrison gives this admirable illustration: "The little one puts his hand upon the hot stove; no whirlwind from without rushes in and pushes the hand away from the stove, then with loud and vengeful blasts scolds him for his heedlessness or wrong-doing. He simply is burned the natural consequences of his own deed; and the fire quietly glows on, regardless of the pain which he is suffering.
There was time even then too for one swift thought of the needlessness and bitter fruits of wrong-doing. But here they were; should she make them known? and trouble Mr. Carleton, friend though he were, with these miserable matters in which he had no concern? She sat with a beating heart and a very troubled brow, but a brow as easy to read as a child's. It was the trouble of anxious questioning.
Moreover, their wrong-doing would be of a kind calculated always to produce similarly useful results.
They both spoke of his wrong-doing as if it were his infirmity; they could not do otherwise; and they both insensibly assumed his irresponsibility in a measure; they dwelt in the fiction or the persuasion of a mental obliquity which would account for otherwise unaccountable things. "It is what my sister has always said," Sue eagerly assented to his suggestion of this theory.
All the enjoyment she could get in reading must be stolen; and between the fear of detection and the consciousness of wrong-doing, the pleasure, such as it was, was generally hardly worth seeking. So it was with many self-congratulations that she set out with Effie to the kirk. They were alone.
After a pause, she asked, "How long is he in prison for?" "Twenty years," I told her." "How harsh that seems!" she said. "How cruel we are to people for a few moments' wrong-doing, which the circumstances may almost have justified!" She checked her pony as we came opposite Drute, and said, "Can you use money?" "Can I, lyedy?" said the fellow, leering in an attempt to look amiable.
"Yes, very much," Katherine answered faintly, although, much as she wished to know all about it, she dreaded hearing the story of her father's wrong-doing told by other lips than his own. "When I was a very young man I was clerk in a Bristol business house, taking a good salary, and, as I believed, with an unblemished character.
He had seen ruined men before now he had seen criminals convicted of their wrong-doing he had seen old and young in adversity, and, what is more dangerous still, in prosperity but he had never seen a young face grow old in the twinkling of an eye. The banker was only thinking of this matter as a financial crisis, in which his great skill made him take a master's delight.
By the very nature of the case, that dies in its satisfaction and the desire dies along with it. We do not wish the prize any more when once we have got it. It lasts but a moment and is past. Then we are left alone with the thought of the sin that we have done. When we get the prize of our wrong-doing, we find out that it is not as all-satisfying as we expected it would be.
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