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"Yes, tell me," his mother said, hoarsely. Without lifting up his bowed head, or raising his voice, which was strangely sad and low, Rex told his story every word of it: how his heart had went out to the sweet-faced, golden-haired little creature whom he found fast asleep under the blossoming magnolia-tree in the morning sunshine; how he protected the shrinking, timid little creature from the cruel insults of Pluma Hurlhurst; how he persuaded her to marry him out in the starlight, and how they had agreed to meet on the morrow that morrow on which he found the cottage empty and his child-bride gone; of his search for her, and oh, cruelest and bitterest of all! where and with whom he found her; how he had left her lying among the clover, loving her too madly to curse her, yet praying Heaven to strike him dead then and there.
It was a crestfallen Captain Blood who presided over that hastily summoned council held on the poop-deck of the Arabella in the brilliant morning sunshine. It was, he declared afterwards, one of the bitterest moments in his career.
Hamilton turned away without a word and sent the message; but Helm saw that he was excited, and could be still further wrought up. "You are playing into the hands of your bitterest enemies, the frog-eaters," he went on.
At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity.
In his boyhood, among boys, he was always fighting the battle of the offended and the weak; in manhood, he was always protecting the fugitive from an angry mob; as a lawyer, saving the widow's son from the gallows, and declining the rich fee of an unrighteous cause; as a public debater, the fairest ever met in the political arena; and as president of the republic, honest in his convictions and kind to his bitterest enemies.
"One indulgence alone from time to time I allow myself, 'tis Music! which has power to delight me even to rapture! it quiets all anxiety, it carries me out of myself, I forget through it every calamity, even the bitterest anguish. "Now then, that thou hast heard me, tell me, hast thou cause of sorrow?" "Alas," cried Cecilia, "this indeed is a Picture of Misery to make my lot seem all happiness!"
The unhappy discord between Henry II. and Coeur de Lion hindered the enterprise until the death of the father, which left the son a prey to the bitterest remorse; and in the hope to expiate his crimes, he hurried on the preparations with all the vehemence of his impetuous nature.
It had been unpacked again by Gleg, and put in the place it had occupied for a day or two before he had gone out of England to do his country's work and to face the bitterest disillusion of his life; to meet the heaviest blow his pride and his heart had ever known. "So that's the lady, is it?" he said, musingly, to the boy, who nodded assent. "Go and have a good look at it," urged Stafford.
"I've heard of him often enough as a bitter enemy to the royalists. Is it possible you have ridden all the way from home to-day?" Before Emily replied, the husband of the woman came in. "Would you think it," said the latter, "this is John's Geiger's daughter, of whom we have so often heard." "Indeed! Well, if she were the daughter of my bitterest enemy, she should have food and shelter to-night.
He was a poor creature, with all his gifts, for his life was a failure, his old age one of the loneliest and bitterest in history; and from no cause that facts or tradition give us but the blind selfishness which blunted a good understanding to stupidity. Selfishness in public life is a crime against one's highest ambitions. Mrs.
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