Detective and mystery stories; English fiction -- 19th century
And truly it is a strange world to many of us, though perhaps the
strangest and most incomprehensible part of the whole mystery is the
perpetual sacrifice of the good to the bad, and the seeming continual
triumph of conventional lies over central truths. But, after all, that
triumph is only ‘seeming’; and the martyrdom of life and love endured by
thousands of patiently-working, self-denying women will bring its own
reward in the Hereafter, as well as its own terrific vengeance on the
heads of the callous egotists among men who have tortured tender souls
on the rack, or burnt them in the fire, making ‘living torches’ of them,
to throw light upon the wicked deeds done in the vast arena of
Sensualism and Materialism. Not a tear, not a heart-throb of one pure
woman wronged shall escape the eyes of Eternal Justice, or fail to bring
punishment upon the wrong-doer! This we may believe,—this we MUST
believe,—else God Himself would be a demon and the world His Hell!
THE END
Colston & Coy., Limited, Printers, Edinburgh.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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