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The trunk of the host is completely enclosed; it is the dying core of a living cylinder, for the first shoots have long since crept up among the branches, have expanded their leaves, and are busy sapping the life-blood of the tree at all points.
The man and the woman approached the dying man and looked at him with calm, resigned eyes. The son-in-law said: "I guess it's all up with him this time; he will not last the night." The woman answered: "He's been gurglin' like that ever since midday." They were silent. The father's eyes were closed, his face was the color of the earth and so dry that it looked like wood.
Poor Captain Capron received his death wound early in the fight, and while he was lying on the ground dying, he said: 'Let me see it out; I want to see it all. He lived an hour and fifteen minutes after the bullet struck him, and up to the moment he fell had acted fearlessly, and had exposed himself all the time to the enemy's fire.
Marina dying! How should Piero know more about Marina than her own father knew? Did he profess to be a physician that one should credit his every word? What did he mean by his impudent boast of "dying for her, if need should be!" Had she not her husband and father to care for her? Her husband "who was denying her the only thing that could give her life and peace," Piero had said.
Mrs. Ellmother sat by the dying embers of the kitchen fire; thinking over the events of the day in perplexity and distress. She had waited at the cottage door for a friendly word with Alban, after he had left Emily. The stern despair in his face warned her to let him go in silence. She had looked into the parlor next.
"John," he said, slowly, "my wife is dying, and she wants to see you. Will you see her?" "Most certainly," I replied. She smiled when she saw me, and beckoned me to her. Ah, poor soul! her judgment had indeed been taken from me. She whispered to me: "Promise me that you will never tell him. I am dying! he need never know now. Will you promise me?" I promised, and she died!
When it was finished, she caused her gallant to be brought thither from the place that she made him to be carried the same night that I wounded him; she had hindered his dying by the drink she gave him, and carried to him herself every day after he came to the Palace of Tears.
Another severance from old associations had occurred this year in the death of Thomas Holcroft who, in spite of occasional differences, had always known and loved Godwin well, and whose last words when dying and pressing his hands were, "My dear, dear friend."
"What do you mean?" exclaimed the mother in agony. She read the truth in her daughter's eyes. "You know " she began. "That he is her lover," cried Micheline, interrupting her. "Don't you see that I am dying through it?" she added, sobbing bitterly and falling into her mother's arms. The mistress carried her as if she had been a child into Cayrol's private office, and shut the door.
Dewey came over to look at it as Taylor opened the book and found the place. 'H l, said Taylor, 'I did it myself! Jerusalem! but I felt good! 'Well, said Dewey, 'if we owe you anything you'd better take it. I was just about dying to holler. The next day all the boys knew it, and Taylor was mighty quiet for several weeks after that."
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