“Once a fate cannot be avoided, however horrible it might be, it loses something of its powers of dread”
“However aware we are that a certain fate cannot be avoided, we cannot help blaming the person who gets that monster to its feet...and leads it into the room.”
“Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”
“When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.”
“Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.”
“Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.”