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Is it not hard to bear, Emma? and what could support me, but the consciousness of my own innocence, and the assurance that she whom I love so, and whom I now lose for ever, still believes me so? Yes, it is a balm; a consolation; and I will now submit to the will of Heaven." Emma burst into tears, leaning her face on our hero's shoulder. After a time she replied, "And am I not to be pitied?
"I hope you don't allude to events at all calamitous." "No only horrid and vulgar." "Oh!" said Merton Densher. Mrs. Lowder's soreness, it was still not obscure, had discovered in free speech to him a momentary balm. "They've the misfortune to have, I suppose you know, a dreadful horrible father." "Oh!" said Densher again.
Somers, his nephew, and Adèle had been sitting under the shade of an odorous balm poplar, on the skirt of the crowd, at first watching its movements, and then drawn away from these observations, by the impressive discourse of Mr. Norton. "What a clear, melodious voice he has!" said John in an undertone to Adèle, as the missionary finished the opening service.
If my homage could have compensated in any small degree for kingly unfaith, a drop of balm would have fallen upon the marble heart of each royal lady to whom such injustice had perchance been done; for I loved them all for their noble dignity, and the sweet femininity which remained to them even under the mask of stone.
But had the armies been of men that loved death like me, how had I raged among them then, even as the angel Azrael to give them their sore-desired rest! for I loved and hated not my kind, and would diligently have mown them down out of the stinging air of life into the soft balm of the sepulchre.
"Have ye got all as ye want?" he questioned her politely, anxious to be of assistance. "Everything!" she answered, positively, and with just the least hint of an intention to crush him. "Have ye indeed!" He did not utter this exclamation aloud; but with it he applied balm to his secret breast.
To her girl upon Bear Creek she wrote the next day. And this word from Dunbarton was like balm among the harsh stings Molly was receiving. The voices of the world reached her in gathering numbers, and not one of them save that great-aunt's was sweet. Her days were full of hurts; and there was no one by to kiss the hurts away. Nor did she even hear from her lover any more now.
We are denied the one thing that might heal us and keep us, that might bring balm to the bruised heart, and peace to the soul in pain. De Profundis. Sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
That thing which he was minded to do would be expiation in the sight of Heaven. God would accept it for an atonement yes; and there was soft balm like a river of morning air in the thought. Sim slept on, and Brown crouched over the fire, with his head in his hands and his elbows on his knees. There was not a motion within the house or without; the world lay still and white like death.
It has poured balm and consolation into the heart of the sick, of captives in dungeons, of widows in their pinching griefs, of orphans in their loneliness. Dying soldiers have died easier as it was read to them; ghastly hospitals have been illuminated; it has visited the prisoner and broken his chains, and, like Peter's angel, led him forth in imagination, and sung him back to his home again.
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