There was a shade of something feminine in Stephen's loyalty, of something perhaps masculine in Mercy's; but Mercy's was the best, the truest.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our Father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is man, His child and care.

This Part of Good-nature, however, which consists in the pardoning and overlooking of Faults, is to be exercised only in doing our selves Justice, and that too in the ordinary Commerce and Occurrences of Life; for in the publick Administrations of Justice, Mercy to one may be Cruelty to others.

But no mercy would the cruel Shylock shew; and he said, "By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.""Why

Such misplaced mercy was a crime in the eyes of the crusaders.

Mercy is God's memorial, And in all ages praised: My God, thine only Son did fall,

That the mercy of GOD to mankind in sending His Son into the world, was a very signal mercy.

From atheists far, they steadfastly believe God is, and is almightyto forgive, His other excellence they'll not dispute; But mercy, sure, is his chief attribute.

"Mercy," is the expression in Brienne's own account, "that under a minister who, like me, had lost the favor of the public, he could not do any good."

Great mercies, great failings, time lost, talents misappliedsuch has been the past year.

"Bushi no nasaké"the tenderness of a warriorhad a sound which appealed at once to whatever was noble in us; not that the mercy of a samurai was generically different from the mercy of any other being, but because it implied mercy where mercy was not a blind impulse, but where it recognized due regard to justice, and where mercy did not remain merely a certain state of mind, but where it was backed with power to save or kill.

The Russ knows something more of the law, and is by no means so domestic a cut-throat; but his mercy in the field or in the stormed city, is massacre.

And Stephen smiled,a smile more pathetic than Mercy's had been.

Gracious mercy, are you a fool, Captain Franks?" "Ask the passenger himself, for here he comes."

But Mercy was a statesman above every thing, and, feeling secure of being able to guide the queen, he desired to instill into her mind an ambition to govern the king.

264 Thou who hast taught me to forgive the ill, And recompense, as friends, the good misled; If mercy be a precept of thy will, Return that mercy on thy servant's head.

Mercy's was a bounding and delighted acceptance.

"Mercy being a young and breeding woman longed for something," &c. Out upon the fellow!

"'Mercy is the true badge of nobility.'

Mercy and remorse were two things that he had put from him.

Then know that mercy is the Mighties iewell, And greater glory think to save then spill.

Pity and justice are not the same; but one may still so temper the other that Mercy, the appointed angel of this earth, may be the result.

Yet I have been comforted this morning, in thinking of the declaration, "His mercies are over-all his works;" which I believe may be very especially applied to the work of His Spirit in the soul of man.

For the wages of sin is death: and even if God does not slay us for our sins, He is certain to punish us for them in some way, lest we should forget that sin is sin, and fancy that God's mercy is only careless indulgence.

Stephen forgot himself, forgot the fact that Mercy was comparatively a stranger, forgot every thing, except the one intense consciousness of this sweet woman-face looking up into his.