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He had thought ten thousand taxis must have leaped from their stands, etc. The whistle that at first sounded merely mechanical and ear-piercing had become heartrending and human when I saw from whom it proceeded a very heart-cry that still haunts me. But was it a heart-cry? Was Brett, is Brett more than a mere virtuoso?
Coquenard, she could not restrain her tears; but no evil impressions were taken from her grief as she was known to be very much attached to her relatives, about whom she was constantly having serious disputes with her husband. But the real adieux were made in Mme. Coquenard's chamber; they were heartrending.
They are recorded in many books; and I believe the most heartrending tales that have been told are not a whit exaggerated. My own experience convinces me that most of them are within the boundaries of truth. On board the Pandora these poor wretches were treated as is usual on other slave-vessels.
There were weddings at the little church, and burials; there were dances at the golf club; there were Christmas trees, where most of the presents like Honora's came from afar, from family centres formed in a social period gone by; there were promotions for the heads of families, and consequent rejoicings over increases of income; there were movings; there were inevitable in the ever grinding action of that remorseless law, the survival of the fittest commercial calamities, and the heartrending search for new employment.
Before sailing from Marseilles, young Risler wrote Sidonie a farewell letter, at once laughable and touching, wherein, mingling the most technical details with the most heartrending adieux, the unhappy engineer declared that he was about to set sail, with a broken heart, on the transport Sahib, "a sailing-ship and steamship combined, with engines of fifteen-hundred-horse power," as if he hoped that so considerable a capacity would make an impression on his ungrateful betrothed, and cause her ceaseless remorse.
The idea of her absence from home for ever was too strange, too heartrending to be at once embraced, and as she neared the end of her journey on that long day, Carey's mind was chiefly fixed on the yearning to be with her husband and Janet, who had suffered such a shock without her.
Poor women were seen holding their children out of the water in the effort to delay for a few instants their death, and death in such a frightful form, a truly admirable maternal incident, which the genius of the painter has divined in painting scenes from the Deluge, and which we saw in all its heartrending and frightful reality!
Yes, but Boston has its tragedies equally as heartrending and shameful.
"Oh, ma'am, such heartrending news as I have had!" began she. "A relation of mine is dying, and wants to see me. I ought to be away by the next train." "Dear me!" cried Mrs. Latimer, after a pause of dismay. "But how can I do without you, Afy?" "It's a dying request, ma'am," pleaded Afy, covering her eyes with her handkerchief not the lace one as if in the depth of woe.
They rushed him off bodily through the crowd and he too was whirled home. How others followed how heartrending stories of partings and of thrilling rescues were poured out in an amazing stream this has all been told over and over again in the news that for days amazed, saddened and angered the entire world.