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Once, twice, during the next hour, a low, anguished voice filled the room; but just as dawn came, Parpon stooped and tenderly wiped a soft moisture from the face, lying so quiet and peaceful now against the pillow. "She breathes easy, poor pretty bird!" said the old woman gently. "She'll never see again?" asked Parpon mournfully. "Never a thing while she lives," was the whispered reply.
She threw her anguished gaze in all directions, but no refuge offered itself, only wide rice-fields, a small irrigating ditch, and some stunted trees; there was not a cliff or even a rock upon which she might dash herself to pieces!
And as the knowledge swept overwhelmingly upon her, the last poor shred of her pride crumbled to nothing in a rush of anguished tears. Pierre said no more. His hard mouth grew a little harder, his steely eyes a shade more steely that was all. He bore her unfaltering through the saloon to the state cabin beyond, and laid her down there.
After a moment of anguished bewilderment, she said: "You mean that Erris Boyne was my father?" "Yes, I mean that. They say I killed him. They say that he was found with no sword drawn, but that my open sword lay on the table beside me while I was asleep, and that it had let out his life-blood." "Why was he killed?" she asked, horror-stricken and with pale lips.
Just the mother, who remembers the first cry, and the little crumpled flannel wrappers, and the little hand crawling up her breast. He walked so much sooner than Jim did, but of course he was lighter. And how he would throw things out of windows the camera that hit the postman! Oh, my God!" For the anguished screaming had recommenced, and the child wanted his mother.
Only after creeping quite close to the performers could I discern certain wailful breathings; this brave instrument, all splotched with variegated colours, gave forth a succession of anguished and asthmatic whispers, the very phantom of a song, like the wind sighing through the branches of trees.
Apart from her weary attitude, and the droop of her head, he might have deemed the scene in which they had taken part a figment of his brain. But round them was the gloom of the closed room! "You did not see me?" he repeated presently. She stood up. "I would I had never seen you!" she cried; and her anguished tone bore witness to the truth of her words.
On the threshold, she had to turn her body through an arc of ninety degrees, unless she backed out of the door. This she was afraid to do; her heel might meet an obstruction; a raised plank of the flooring, even, would mean an alarming noise. She began to turn. The reading continued. The whole journey from door to door, in spite of the anguished care of every step, had consumed scarcely a minute.
Every year that passed gave him a fuller understanding of his father's devotion to that word in all its significance; he himself knew something of the same fervour, and was glad to foster it in his heart. Peace! What better could a man pursue? From of old the desire of wisdom, the prayer of the aspiring soul. And what else was this Love for which he anguished?
Come now, ye faithful souls draw nigh See Jesus suffer, bleed and die, Now has begun the anguished fight Beyond in dark Gethsemane. O, sinners never let this night For evermore forgotten be! For your salvation this has been Which on the mountain we have seen, When, sorrowing unto death, he sank To earth, it was for you 'Twas for your sake the damp turf drank Those drops of crimson dew.
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