human
Oh, that it had been I who had done it, and not she! And her mother's sin was to her her own sin, her mother's shame her shame, till all sense of her mother's guilt vanished in the light of her divine love.
gpt
Oh, that I could take her up tenderly, tell her that all is forgiven and forgotten by man and God!--serve her as I have never served her yet!-- nurse her to sleep on my bosom, and then go forth and bear her punishment, even if need be on the gallows-tree!