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He had told of one who died one that the world called good, a moral man but not a Christian; one who had perversely neglected the way of life. How, on his death-bed, this one had called in agony for a last glass of water, seeming to know all at once that he would now be where no drop of water could cool him through all eternity.
A business which long centuries of faithful travail and heroic agony, on the part of all the noble that are born to us, will not end; and which to us, of this "tremendous cheering" century, it were blessedness very great to see successfully begun.
In the dead of night he wrote one more letter amid constant interruptions; the reader can divine the agony of the writer's mind from those phrases, jerked out, as it were, one by one: "MY BELOVED SISTER, We have seen each other for the last time. My resolution is final, and for this reason. In many families there is one unlucky member, a kind of disease in their midst.
The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place. The doctor was very much displeased about something and made a change in the dressings, turning the wounded man over so that he groaned again and grew unconscious and delirious from the agony.
In their place was nothing but joyous anticipation, a supernal freedom from even the shadow of the shadow of care or sorrow; not now did anything matter Olaf or his haunted, hate-filled eyes; Throckmartin or his fate nothing of pain, nothing of agony, nothing of striving nor endeavour nor despair in that wide outer world that had turned suddenly to a troubled dream.
The king, in deep agony of mind, entered his chariot, and was driven to the palace. How sad was that night for royalty! Filled with remorse for having signed the fatal decree, and knowing not how to retrace his steps or to retrieve the effects of his rash act, the king passed the hours in agony.
The next day the doe came back again, and Genovefa thanked God from the depths of her heart. She found roots, berries, and plants, to support herself, and every day the tame doe came back to her, and at last remained always with her. Days, weeks, and months passed. Her unfaltering faith had rendered her agony less.
The wound was of such a character that two weeks afterward he died of it in great agony. He was the first to pay the penalty. History has preserved little concerning him, but some chroniclers have found him the highest-minded of the brothers possibly because less is known about him! At any rate, he was a valiant soldier.
"Never mind, Daren. I see that you did.... I'm glad you're back alive. Now what can I do for you?" "I've been discharged from three hospitals in the last two months not because I was well, but because I was in better shape than some other poor devil. Those doctors in the service grew hard they had to be hard but they saw the worst, the agony of the war. I always felt sorry for them.
For three days he was virtually a prisoner, then the guards around the block were withdrawn. Word was taken to his aunt and Kate where he was. They had been in an agony of fear over his non-return. But they durst not visit him. To Mrs. Lovell and her daughters Calhoun felt he could never repay what they had done for him.
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