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He felt too limp to stir a finger, even to get to bed; limp body and soul, crushed and heart-broken. He had not been hit, as Pierre had been, in the purity of filial love, in the secret dignity which is the refuge of a proud heart; he was overwhelmed by a stroke of fate which, at the same time, threatened his own nearest interests.

And she came flying wildly across the room to his arms, sobbing out her grief and remorse. "Oh, Kenny, Kenny." she sobbed. "I want you both." His shaking arms sheltered her. A heart-broken child! He must remember that. And, as Don said, he could have been her father. "Happiness with the least unhappiness to others, girleen," he reminded with his cheek against her hair. "Remember?"

Everywhere one comes across these shrines in the gloom of some great Cathedral, in some homely village church, in some humble wayside chapel, where, amidst sunny fields and pastures, amidst mountains, streams, and lakes, one reads the little heart-broken scrawls affixed to the grating, praying an Ave-Maria or Paternoster from the passer-by, for a sick person, for a mother watching beside her dying child, for a woman forsaken of the world.

"It was he that she meant, not the boy she had lost. She knew him, she understood him better than he did himself, and, heart-broken as she was, she knew how he was going to suffer, and comforted him. `My poor boy, my poor, foolish boy! "He mended the past, as far as he could, during the next two years, and she seemed happy. He was very gentle, he was very kind to her.

"It is I who ought to ask your pardon," he replied. "I beg you to forgive me, Valeria, for having made you my wife." He pronounced those words with a hopeless, heart-broken humility dreadful to see. I laid my hand on his bosom. I said, "Eustace, look at me." He slowly lifted his eyes to my face eyes cold and clear and tearless looking at me in steady resignation, in immovable despair.

"May the blessings of our Heavenly Father rest upon this household," he said. The woman looked a defiance at him. He bowed and was gone. Jim Taylor stood with his head hung low. Slowly he began to speak. "Major, you and your wife are humiliated, but I am heart-broken. You are afflicted with a sorrow, but I am struck down with grief. But I beg of you not to say that she shan't come home again.

"I've told you that I shan't worry you," Jim said. "But you mustn't marry this man without thinking about it. You must talk to your mother she'll be heart-broken if you go away from her like this." "Oh, does she want me back?" cried Cicely. "Yes, she does. You must go up to Muriel now. She'll want you too. And you needn't go home till you want to."

Behold now that lone and heart-broken mother, on the spot where day and night, week after week, and month after month, she may be found. Neither heat nor cold distressing days nor fearful nights the entreaties of friends, nor the weariness of watching, nor the horrifying exhibition of decaying humanity, could drive her from her post.

'An' did ye no' gang aifter him? he asked in indignant surprise, adding with some contempt, 'Man! but ye're a feckless buddie. 'Billy gone too! said Shaw. 'They might have let Billy alone. Poor Craig stood in a dumb agony. Billy's fall seemed more than he could bear. We went out, leaving him heart-broken amid the ruins of his League.

Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this gentleness. What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place in Cosette's soul?