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I was afterwards informed, that notwithstanding the weight of his character and holy office, he had found Emily more decided in her rejection than he had anticipated; and it was not until he had sharply rebuked her for her pride and unforgiving temper, that she could be brought to listen with patience to his arguments.
Family affairs had kept him in England and Scotland during his daughter's married life with Reanda; and after she had left the latter, it was natural that he should not wish to be in the same city with her, considering the view he took of her actions. Then, after he had learned from Griggs's brief note that she was dead, he felt that he could not return at once, hard and unforgiving as he was.
And all the horror of quarrels, which sprang from her egotistical desire to be happy, caressed, flattered and adored, was returning to her. But Camille, still threatening, still unsatiated, showed her heart as it really was, her stern, black, unforgiving heart, intoxicated with cruelty. There came a moment of supreme silence, while Duvillard's gay voice again rang out in the adjoining room.
Do you intend to make him kind, tender, and forgiving here, but unkind, unforgiving, and hard-hearted to a part of his offspring hereafter? If you intend to change both the nature and character of the Almighty in the future world, then you and myself are done arguing.
I know my Ellen haughty, intractable; shall I say, just a shade unforgiving?" "But, good heavens, to forgive is one thing; to go back into that hell " "Ah, yes," the Marchioness acquiesced. "So she describes it my sensitive child! But on the material side, Mr. Archer, if one may stoop to consider such things; do you know what she is giving up?
Her bosom rose and fell in absolute dejection. Her ammunition of arguments against him had been expended overnight. "You are so unforgiving," she said. "Is it I who am?" "You do not know me." "But you are the woman of all the world who knows me, Laetitia." "Can you think it better for you to be known?" He was about to say other words: he checked them. "I believe I do not know myself.
Its eyes were open now, large, luminous, earnest, with a wave of solid pride sweeping on through the irides and almost overwhelming the pupils. The mouth, oh, those lips! ever uttered they a prayer? They look, trembling the while, so unutterably unforgiving! When they come to stand before the I AM, will they ever plead? It is hard to think the Deity maketh such souls. Doth He?
Old Doramin, who had not showed himself outside his own gate for more than a year, had been brought across with great difficulty. He was, of course, the chief man there. The temper of the council was very unforgiving, and the old man's word would have been decisive; but it is my opinion that, well aware of his son's fiery courage, he dared not pronounce the word. More dilatory counsels prevailed.
The evening before Hazel and her uncle were to leave, Mrs. Wright spoke to her brother in private. "It seems too bad not to be able to write aunt Hazel that her namesake is coming," she said. "Is she as bitter as ever?" "Oh, yes. No change." "Just think of it!" exclaimed Mrs. Wright. "She lives within a stone's throw of you, and yet can remain unforgiving so many years.
He understood now M. Linders' reluctance to send her to his sister, and sympathised with it fully. Poor little Madelon, with her pretty, impulsive ways, her naïve ignorance, Madelon, so used to be petted and indulged, she to be shut up within those dull walls, with that horrible, harsh, unforgiving woman, to be taught, and drilled, and turned into a nun he hated to think of it!
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