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Skipper Ed, after the manner of the Coast, rowed his boat alongside and climbed aboard, to hear such scraps of news from the outside world as the sailors might bring, and to enjoy their company for an hour. Here he met Jimmy, heartbroken and weeping at the loss of his father.
Kells had used part of the very speech with which she had driven Jim Cleve to his ruin. And those words galvanized him. The fatality of all this! Joan hated herself. Those very words of hers would drive this maddened and heartbroken boy to join Kells's band. She knew what to expect from Jim even before she opened her eyes; yet when she did open them it was to see him transformed and blazing.
"She tugs me by the heart and makes it melt. I never felt so heartbroken in my life. May she live long." This was the first opportunity I had had to take a good look at Matilda since she had come to New York; for our first meeting had been so brief and so embarrassing to me that I had come away from it without a clear impression of her appearance
"Wretch, wretch that I am!" muttered the old woman, with such a heartbroken expression that the tears gushed from the stranger's eyes. "Have I bidden a traitor welcome? Come, Death! come quickly!"
God be merciful!" The darkest despairs are the most silent. All the night long he was only able to utter that one heartbroken cry for pity and help. At the earliest daylight he was with his son. He was amazed to find him calm, almost cheerful. "The worst is over father," he said. "I have done a great wrong; I acknowledge the justice of the punishment, and am willing to suffer it."
After that it was suddenly very still in the brightening room. Bobby gazed and gazed at his master one long, heartbroken look, then dropped to all fours and stood trembling. Without another look he stretched himself upon the hearthstone below the bed. Morning and evening footsteps went down and came up on the stairs.
It's marvellous, Major, what women do see in men that they can go on loving them. Has she come out of her retirement yet?" "Yes, Mr. Cleek. She came out of it five days ago, to all appearances a thoroughly heartbroken woman.
Poets and philosophers, time out of mind, have been heartbroken over the enormous mass of evil in the world, and have spoken as though animated nature were one great organism, with a brain in which every pang that afflicted each one of its innumerable members was piled up into a huge, pyramidal agony. But this is obviously not so.
When Pan came out of his stupefaction to realize his actual loss he was heartbroken. He could not be consoled. Hours he spent crying over his saddle. Not for a long time did he go to see little Lucy. His father could not afford to buy him another horse then and indeed it was a long time before he did get one.
He had just hit her, and had picked up a larger stone to fire when I ordered him to drop it." "It was no business of yours," muttered Peter. "I made it my business, and will again." "Did the cat have a white spot on her forehead?" asked the constable. "Yes, sir." "And was mouse colored?" "Yes, sir." "Why, it's my little girl's cat. She would be heartbroken if the cat were seriously hurt.
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