Memoirs of a Sinner

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Memoirs Of A Sinner

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Woe to the earth and to the sea...

...for the devil is coming down unto you having great wrath...

...knowing that he hath but a short time.

He should have it on him.

I do.

Can you hear me?

Yes. But I wish to relate my story myself.

Quiet!

Gather your wits and speak!

I was born an outcast in the world...

...in which I was to act a conspicuous part.

My mother was a burning and shining light...

...in her community.

But in the days of her virginity she had...

...suffered the persecutions that befall all saints.

- Maybe he's uncomfortable? - Queit!

But it so pleased heaven...

...that as a trial of her fath...

...she was married to a man covered with the leprosy of sin.

As well conjoin fire and water in hopes...

...that they would amalgamate.

You are beautiful, madam.

For shame, sir.

But you are beautiful and will be happy.

I curse the day that I was born.

I must be guilty of some fearful sin...

...to be so cruelly punished by the Lord.

I beg you not to abandon me.

Come now! That punishment is a part of grace.

In suffering...

...you're part of the fabric which God is embroidering...

...threading your soul with His needle...

...and picking it out with gorgeous silk.

Bless that hand.

Bless that lecherous old drunkard?

For what, sir?

Old? He is but two years older than I.

I spoke figuratively.

Get out of my way!

Why did you leave?

Why did you leave me, my little dove?

It is late, sir.

Indeed? Then I will no longer keep you waiting.

I fear that too much wine or Satan's wiles...

...have possessed you with lustful thoughts.

The path to destruction is ever broad.

Broad or narrow, no matter.

It is time that we were in our bed.

Surely you would not go to bed on such a night...

...without first saying prayers?

The Lord have mercy on your crazed head!

Mistress! Is this a night for prayers?

"Make them as a wheel and as dust before the wind...

...and fill their countenances with shame".

So you refuse to fulfil the duty of praying together?

Do continual devotions not make a farce of them?

It would be like reading the Bible...

...and the jest-book, turn and turn about.

The world would become a medley of absurdity...

...and confusion.

Now I have you!

Desist!

Desist, you heathen!

Let go of me! I'd sooner lay down my life!

I've never met a woman...

...so full of hate.

God save the king!

I've lost my wife.

You sly and malevolent imp!

What a trick you've played on me!

I've never known a frolic so clever - and so wicked!

My lord!

Be gone!

Be assured, sir, that I detest your principles...

as much as your personality.

None shall say I succumbed to a dancer and dangler!

Dancer and dangler?

I told you to leave!

No one...never...

Never...never ...

No one? Never?

And what are you doing now?

A little longer...

My lord! My lord!

My dear, we have a son.

May God preserve you and your son.

She must be ill.

She is very tired.

We have a son, do you hear?

May God preserve...

Take him. Take that son of yours...

...that bastard spawned in sin and degradation.

What?

She is ill for sure.

Take him!

Be gone from my sight to your eternal damnation!

Be silent! I am at my most lucid.

I demand divorce from bed and board.

Be gone from here forever, you and that bastard!

You rogue!

You monster! You Antichrist!

"Make them as a wheel and as dust before the wind..."

"...and fill their countenances with shame".

Let us go.

His name will be Gustav.

You spin a long yarn...

...instead of stating when and where you were born.

It was not I that was born, but my brother.

My name is ...

Robert.

Now I am totally at a loss.

Can you make sense of him?

Allow me to continue.

Tell me, what is to be done in this case...

...of open and avowed debauchery?

You mean your husband?

I am scandalised at such iniquities going on...

...and believe the sufferance of them...

...to be a great evil.

Evil may be operative or passive.

To those two it is an evil, but to us none.

However, if you want, I shall take your husband to task...

...and so shame him that he will renounce...

...such doings forever...

...however unsanctified both heart and deed may be.

What sweet and comforting words!

How delightful to think...

...that a justified person can do no wrong!

Yes, to the wicked all things are wicked.

But to the just all things are just and right.

Got to him and open his eyes.

Who is better fitted to the task than you?

Now?

Yes. I will confound him.

I will lay sin and Satan before him as flatly...

...as the dung that is spread to fatten the land.

Master, a gentleman wishes to see you.

Tell him I'm busy.

I can see him tomorrow morning.

He already approaches.

Then let him approach!

Stand aside, creature of Satan!

My mission will suffer no delay!

What is it, sir?

I come to save you from damnation.

Ah well, it's important then...

It is a serious matter! I think you know me, sir...

Certainly I do. You are...Mr...

...who did me the worst turn of my life.

If I harm anyone, it is because he wishes it so.

So the evil is of my doing?

Yes, yes, exactly so.

Can they not stop that din?

I ask you before God...

...if you have kept inviolate the vows you took.

Has the woman to whom you bound me...

...kept hers equally inviolate?

None can answer that better than you, Mr...

...whatever your name is.

So you confess the profligacy of your life?

And this person here...

...is no doubt the partner of you iniquity.

Stand up, both of you, to hear my reprimand!

First you will stand while I tell you what you are...

...in the eyes of God and man!

You are a presumptuous, arrogant pedagogue...

...and an instigator of discord!

Well?

Tell me this, sir...

Have you ever done a good deed for anyone?

- Otherwise, I'll... - Enough!

Enough of your profanity!

No profanity in my presence!

Play up, you devils!

No doubt he will tell her...

...how he left the squire so contrite and ashamed...

...that he could not speak, and meekly hung his head.

The lady...

...will thank him, praising his gallantry and eloquence.

Then they will apply themselves...

...to splitting hairs...

...and finding sin where none exists.

Of course ...

I thought as much.

Despite certain doubts...

...the squire acknowledged me as a son.

But from the day I was born...

...he refused to have any dealings with me.

I'm chilled to the bone.

We'll be stuck here all night.

I come now to the most important period of my existence....

...that decided the course of my life and all my actions...

...without which this tale would be a farrago...