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Here were the lonely sisters sustained in bereavement and self-rebuke, by the vision of a friendship which should be unearthly in its depth and freedom; they were so happy for the hour, that nothing could disturb them. "I do not see," observed Hester, "that it will be possible to enjoy any intimate intercourse with this family.
When they do not carry out an intention which they have formed, they seem to have sustained a personal bereavement; when an enterprise succeeds, they have gained a mere instalment of what is to come; but if they fail, they at once conceive new hopes and so fill up the void. "With them alone to hope is to have, for they lose not a moment in the execution of an idea.
Art must forever weep over this bereavement; Humanity must regret that the reforming is thus always ready to degenerate into the destructive principle; but it is impossible to censure very severely the spirit which prompted the brutal, but not ferocious deed. Those statues, associated as they were with the remorseless persecution which had so long desolated the provinces, had ceased to be images.
He had another voice for sick-beds and rooms of bereavement, but this one suited best with the purring of the waves and winds. "How do you know that anything is the matter?" Mary Isabel parried demurely. "By your face. Come now, tell me what it is." "It is really nothing. I have just been foolish, that is all.
Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Cause of God, the Chosen Branch and leader of the people of Bahá, as a result of intense and unceasing grief over this great bereavement, this supreme affliction, has determined to absent himself for a short period, in an effort to rest, and to regain his health, after which he will return to the Holy Land and resume his services and obligations to the Cause of God.
For a race which has the infinite as its goal the word must be on and on. The static heaven of bearing palms and playing harps and bliss, which the naive interpretation of our fathers drew from the imagery of the Apocalypse, has long since made us rebellious. Something to strive for we demand, even at the risk of bereavement.
It is not loss, but momentary eclipse, and the final issue is a clearer perception of immortal love, and a deeper consciousness of eternal life. The attitude of mind, therefore, in any such bereavement sore as the first stroke must be, since we are so much the creatures of habit, and it is hard to adjust ourselves to the new relationship cannot be an attitude merely of resignation.
From that moment not a sob escaped him until, in the narrative of the night's events, he came to that part which told of the sudden disclosure of his bereavement.
The Man of Letters, so called, was missing one morning, having folded his tent that is, packed his carpet-bag with the silence of the Arabs, and encamped that is, taken lodgings in some locality which he had forgotten to indicate. The Landlady bore this sudden bereavement remarkably well.
She could rejoice at her sister's blessed translation, but she keenly felt the bereavement notwithstanding. Their lives had been so bound together; they had walked so many years side by side; they had so shared each other's burdens, cares, and sorrows, that she who was left scarcely knew how to live the daily life without that dear twin-soul.
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