He did not feel the pitiless, storm-laden heat of the day.

[Footnote 12: I do not know whether this word means pitiless, or stands for impetuous.

Keenly alive to the smallest slight to her mother, she turned quickly towards Mrs. White, and, to her consternation, met the same steady, pitiless, aggressive look which she had seen on her face in their first interview.

" So, when the hour came, Theseus sat down to dine with the king and Medea; and while he ate he told of his deeds and of how he had overcome the robber giants, and Cercyon the wrestler, and Procrustes the pitiless; and as the king listened, his heart yearned strangely towards the young man, and he longed to save him from Medea's poisoned cup.

And though nothing could be added to this, (for, indeed, what could he propose more severe or more pitiless?)

The woods and rocks with our shrill songs we'll bless; Let them prove kind, since men prove pitiless.

The answer is: He that attributes judgments to God which are to render humanity pitiless.]

Ay!' she said, pitiless in her triumph.