human
There were moments when, goaded to madness by that voice, I felt inclined to give myself up to justice, but pride withheld me, and the dismal fear of those haunting fiends chasing me through eternity, was a hell I dared not encounter. My soul was parched with an unquenchable fire; I was too hardened to pray.
gpt
Noah, said Sophy, looking earnestly into his hollow eyes,
human
It was pride,--a foolish, false shame of low birth and honest poverty, that led me to the desperate act.
gpt
I have felt something of this, said Sophy, and her tears flowed afresh.
human
I now see that sinful thoughts are but the seeds of sinful deeds, ripened and matured by bad passions. Perhaps I only needed a stronger temptation to be guilty of crimes as great as that of which you stand charged.