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In one of those fitful bursts of anger, in which Charles from time to time indulged, even in his state of exhaustion and in his dying moments, he had desired to be left by his doctors and attendants, and he slumbered his last slumber in this world, before closing his eyes for ever in the great sleep of death, to wake upon another.
She was there, in the centre of the room, standing in meditation, her face turned by chance toward the door through which he entered. She opened her eyes and lips in wonder, and then stood pale and rigid as marble, and made a faint gesture to check his approach. As he halted in astonishment, his joy dying at her look, she whispered hoarsely: "You! You, of all men? And to-night, of all nights!"
"It seems to you," repeated he, encouragingly. "That " "Go on." "That I am dying to marry M. de Saint-Herem," she concluded, very low. "Madame!" cried the amazed duke, turning crimson. "Madame!" "What is it, my dear duke?" inquired the princess. "How flushed your face is!" "My dear countess," rejoined the duke, with a forced smile, "the jest is rather "
When at length they had all departed, Jethro rose and went about the house making fast the doors, as was his custom, while Cynthia sat staring through the bars at the dying embers in the stove. He knew now, and it was inevitable that he should know, what she had made up her mind to do.
The loss was irreparable, but it led him to Christ, From the sad moment when the dying mother laid her hand upon his head and spoke in words never to be forgotten, her last benediction, sorrow for the sainted dead was blended with penepenitentialrow towards God, and prayers and tears cried to heaven for mercy.
Now she was resting in her bed, lying on her back, her eyes closed, her features calm, her long white hair carefully arranged as though she had done it up ten minutes before dying.
In one of them found an old acquaintance transferr'd here lately, a rebel prisoner, in a dying condition. Poor fellow, the look was already on his face. He gazed long at me. I ask'd him if he knew me. After a moment he utter'd something, but inarticulately. I have seen him off and on for the last five months.
Appalled by the deadly malice of the imprecation and the look that accompanied this partial recognition of his voice, Tom was nerving himself to speak again, when the dying man, as if roused by the echo of his own thought, burst out, 'Who? What is it? I say Dr. May shall not be called in! He never attended the old man! Let him mind his own business! I was all night at the Three Goblets.
'Did you really sit up all night, my poor child? 'I don't know. They did so with him! 'My dear, this will never do. You are making yourself seriously unwell. 'I wish I wish I was ill; I wish I was dying! broke from Laura, almost unconsciously, in a hoarse, inward voice. 'My dear! You don't know what you are saying.
For to think that he should have come into the property wrongful, however innocent, and more than that might have gone on keeping it to his dying day, turned him whiter than chalk. 'And you too, said Mr Boffin. 'Don't you mind him, neither, my deary, resumed Mrs Boffin; 'stick to me.
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