Realizing that the animal could have been sacred and that his act might have incited the unabating wrath of the gods, Cadmus prayed to recompense his error.
However, coloured people had almost all the dwellings of this old section to themselves; and although even they were troubled, there was recompense for them.
To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.