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In short, that true lover, conceiving me his companion and fellow-sufferer, began the relation of his adventures in the following manner. "Hear, O friend! By the age of ten years, I had acquired every species of learning, and every useful accomplishment. On beholding it, my reason and senses vanished.
"He has said, 'I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I have passed through this sorrow so recently myself that I can sympathize with you as a fellow-sufferer." "True, true, you have," she answered. "Is that the reason that Christ suffered with us that we might know He sympathized with us?" "Yes." "How unspeakably comforting is such sympathy, both human and divine! Tell me about your mother."
Lehrs had therefore perpetually to struggle against poverty, but he preserved an even temper, and showed himself in every way a model of disinterestedness and self-sacrifice. At first he looked upon me only as a man in need of advice, and incidentally a fellow-sufferer in Paris; for he had no knowledge of music, and had no particular interest in it.
There the jailers roughly ordered him to hold his peace, and dragged him off to be pinioned to his fellow-sufferer. Stephen was not called till some minutes later, and had not seen him since.
The condolence of a friend or fellow-sufferer may soothe, though it cannot cure; and for such a solace the heart intuitively seeks. Confidence and sympathy are consolatory virtues even penance has its purpose. I longed, therefore, for a friend one to whom I could confide my secret, and unbosom my sorrow; and I sought that friend in the young backwoodsman.
It was an awful extreme of wickedness to be engaged, so near their own end, in hurling opprobrious words at a fellow-sufferer. Of course, the very excess of pain made crucified persons reckless; and to be engaged doing anything, especially anything violent, helped to make them forget their agony.
We may add the portrait drawn by one who had been his companion and fellow-sufferer for many years, John Nelson: "His countenance was grave and sedate, and did so to the life discover the inward frame of his heart, that it was convincing to the beholders and did strike something of awe into them that had nothing of the fear of God."
So great was it, that he had no room to think of Tom. Besides, Tom was a fellow-sufferer, and had been passed over equally with himself. "What's the row?" asked Gerald. Tom explained, stating what he had heard from Ketch of the trick the boys had played him; and Charley's absence.
"Kittiwake Jack," one of the crew, was seated as far as possible for'ard, vainly trying to absorb his tea and stop his ears, at one and the same time, whilst his fellow-sufferer, Bill Brown, having hastily dived below, lay in his bunk, striving to deaden the weird, wailing sounds that filled the ship.
The man spoke pointedly and in a harsh sarcastic tone which tended to check Foster's new-born compassion; nevertheless, he continued to address his fellow-sufferer in a sympathetic spirit. "You are not an Englishman, I think," he said, "though you speak our language well." "No, I am French, but my wife is English." "Your wife! Is she here also?"
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