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Mother and daughters sat looking at each other over the letter, stupefied. That this calamity, of all others, should have fallen on Catherine, of all women! Rose said very little, and presently jumped up with shining, excited eyes, and ran out for a walk with Bob, leaving Agnes to console their tearful and agitated mother. When she came in she went singing about the house as usual.
You'll see how quickly she'll console you! Good-bye, brother! he said to Arkady when he had got into the light cart, and, pointing to a pair of jackdaws sitting side by side on the stable roof, he added, 'That's for you! follow that example. 'What does that mean? asked Arkady. 'What? Are you so weak in natural history, or have you forgotten that the jackdaw is a most respectable family bird?
"We are both unhappy " he would say to me; "I have told you my melancholy tale and we have wept together the loss of that lovely spirit that has so cruelly deserted me; but you hide your griefs: I do not ask you to disclose them, but tell me if I may not console you.
Ketch answered by a yell. "Now, don't excite yourself, I beg," went on aggravating Bywater. "We are thinking of getting up a petition to the dean, to console you for your disappointment, praying that he'll allow you to wear a cap we have ordered for you! It's made of scarlet cloth, with long ears and a set of bells! Its device is a cross beam and a cord, and we wish you health to wear it out!
Quick, quick, come! and she drew me hurriedly away. We left the garden, and returned to the dwelling of the countess, and there I remained alone, for the countess and her husband said, laughing, that they must go and console the old gentleman for having so short a rendezvous, and for being so quickly disturbed.
And Johanna smoothed her hair in the old, fond way, making no attempt to console her, but only to love her always the safest consolation.
Her husband had lately died, after a tedious illness, and her distress was augmented by the solitude in which the flight of all her neighbours and acquaintances had left her. A friendly visit could at no time have been so acceptable to her, and my sympathy was not more needed to console her than my counsel to assist her in the new state of her affairs.
I would it were ended, for I am aweary of it all." Jean and Elizabeth Curll tried to cheer and console her, alarmed at this unwonted depression, but she only said, "Get me to bed, nurse, I am sair forfaughten."
Grandmother, who loved to talk of "my daughter in the city," was pleased, and to console mother, said: "Never you mind, Fanny, leave her to me; you find victuals and drink, and I'll do the entertaining." Among so many opinions it was hard for me to arrive at a conclusion.
And should it be your lot to be voices in the wilderness; among your children deaf to your cries; among your compatriots insensible to your warnings, console yourselves. Greater than you have suffered the same fate. Unite yourself in spirit to their company and be happy to suffer with them.
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