Here, she said to herself had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another
purity than that which she had lost: more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
Yes, he also declared that he greatly liked me for my
purity and good sense; that I must beware of dissolute young men; and that he knew Anna Thedorovna, who had charged him to inform me that she would shortly be visiting me in person.
The son of the Portas passed all his days at the feet of his future wife; and his youthful love, the
purity of his words, dispersed the clouds from the mind of the banished daughter; the future was so beautiful as he painted it that she ended by smiling joyfully, though without forgetting her father's severity.
The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the
purity to voluptuous wantonness.
"Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its
purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of
purity the liquid I receive."
For it is only through our mysterious human relationships--through the love and tenderness and
purity of mothers and sisters and wives, through the strength and courage and wisdom of fathers and brothers and teachers--that we can come to the knowledge of Him in whom alone the love, and the tenderness, and the
purity, and the strength, and the courage, and the wisdom of all these dwell for ever and ever in perfect fullness.
"What is so exquisite," he thought, as he returned from the Shtcherbatskys', carrying away with him, as he always did, a delicious feeling of
purity and freshness, arising partly from the fact that he had not been smoking for a whole evening, and with it a new feeling of tenderness at her love for him--"what is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones, that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.
If by living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, so long, it has acquired such wonderful
purity, who would not regret that the comparatively impure waters of Flint's Pond should be mingled with it, or itself should ever go to waste its sweetness in the ocean wave?
Mary's white muslin dress suited her particularly well, and she seemed the personification of innocence and love as she sat, now bending her head, now gazing up at the very tall and handsome man who was speaking to her with particular tenderness and self-restraint, as if he feared by word or gesture to offend or sully her angelic
purity.
Summer Weather of the Prairies.-
Purity of the Atmosphere- Canadians on the March.- Sickness in the Camp.- Big River.- Vulgar Nomenclature.- Suggestions About the Original Indian Names.- Camp of Cheyennes.- Trade for Horses.- Character of the Cheyennes.- Their Horsemanship.- Historical Anecdotes of the Tribe.
AN Editor who was always vaunting the
purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers.
Their honesty is immaculate, and their
purity of purpose, and their observance of the rites of their religion, are most uniform and remarkable.