Dearforgil, the Princess of Brefney, by the Author of the Last Earl of Desmond
by Charles Bernard Gibson (9781150548475)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Dearforgil waited the performance of her brother's funeral obsequies, and then sought refuge in the monastery of Mellifont. Here we shall leave her, for a time, and return to Diarmaid, whom we left at Ferns. CHAPTER XLI. A CABINET COTJNCII.: PEACE OB WAB. It is not necessary for men, either " to die," or enter a monastery, in order to escape the guilt or shame of unlawful love. There is but little shame in their case -- more shame for the world, which makes the distinction -- and as a necessary consequence, the sin lies light on their souls. We form our estimate of transgression from the way in which the world views it; hence, the sin which bears down the soul of woman in penitence before God, is removed from man's soul, at least he thinks so, by a single "peccavi." But give us -- after the "fountain opened for sin and uncleanness " -- woman's tears, tears like those that washed the Saviour's feet " Le malheureux qni prie, est dej

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