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His countenance, habitually cheerful almost comic in its expression had assumed an air of concentrated anguish. It was easy to divine that he had been the victim of some cruel outrage. My curiosity had become fully aroused; and I felt an eager desire to hear a tale, which, though beyond doubt painful, could not be otherwise than one of romantic interest.
They objected to a foreigner being given so much freehold. "In an anguish of despair" to use one chronicler's words they threw themselves under the protection of a leader. "That leader was, of course, Francis, Earl of Bedford, surnamed 'the Incomparable. He could not hear unmoved the cry of his fellow-citizens.
"Well, Miss Bannerworth," he said, "what is all this I hear about an ugly dream you have had?" "A dream?" said Flora, as she fixed her beautiful eyes on his face. "Yes, as I understand." She shuddered, and was silent. "Was it not a dream, then?" added Mr. Chillingworth. She wrung her hands, and in a voice of extreme anguish and pathos, said, "Would it were a dream would it were a dream!
She was conscious that she had sunk step by step, dragged down that slippery path by Cecilia, instead of firmly making a stand, as she ought to have done, and up-holding by her own integrity her friend's failing truth. With returning anguish of self-reproach, she went over and over these thoughts; she considered the many unforeseen circumstances that had occurred.
Regard not me, she cried in anguish. Richard gave a strange laugh as he answered, 'There was a time when I had doubted the sun in heaven as soon as thy word, Dorothy. This is surely an evil time. Tell me, yea or nay, hast thou missives to the king or any of his people? Palter not with me. But such an appeal was what Dorothy would least willingly encounter.
The Guardian’s anguish, because of this tragic occurrence, is such that it can neither be plumbed nor described in words.
"Has he, perhaps, any suspicion; and these apparently artless questions and remarks this distraction and forgetfulness But no, no! it is impossible, he can know nothing no one has betrayed me. It is the anguish of my conscience which makes me fearful; this suffering I must bear, it is the penalty I pay for my great happiness." The count sighed deeply and withdrew.
I do not believe the scoundrels I mean the Axphain nobles will molest you if you do not cross them, When you are ready to go to your hotel, I will accompany you." Half an hour later Larry was in a cell from which there could be no escape, while Anguish was riding toward the hotel, surrounded by Graustark soldiers.
Alas! when shall the poor, blind, stupid world honor those who renounce self in the joy of their kind, equally with those who devote themselves through the anguish and loss of thousands? So old a world and groping still! The tourists were better fitted for the next occasion of sentiment, which was at the Hotel Dieu whither they went after returning from the battlefield.
A strange feeling came over him as the nurse took the little child, and laid upon the bed the robes its mother had prepared for it. It was too much, and the heart-stricken man left the room, and locking himself in his library, where he had spent so many happy hours with his lost one, gave full vent to the deep anguish of his soul. He heard the kind physician's steps as he left, and no more.
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