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A simple but appropriate monument to the memory of the gallant Sherwood and the brave, true soldier, who gave up his life to protect the precious body from mutilation, was erected where they fell, and may still be standing there, but that is all that remains to tell of this heartrending incident of the bloody war with the Seminoles in the Everglades of Florida.
"He's red, mother, red with black horns. He dances in the flames wherever there's a fire; he sends out sparks, mother he's fetching us all! Mother! Oh, he's burning us all!" The child uttered a heartrending sigh, and pressing both hands to her breast reared herself up in bed.
Tiralla hanging from the hook in the centre beam, which had once been destined to carry a chandelier, close to the table with bottles and glasses. The man had made a noose of his handkerchief; the ceiling was low and his toes almost touched the chair, but still he was dangling. "O God!" She uttered a heartrending scream and sprang forward.
That worthy but miserable man and Neal often retired beyond the hearing of their respective wives, and supported each other by every argument in their power. Often have they been heard in the dusk of evening singing behind a remote hedge that melancholy ditty, "Let us BOTH be unhappy together," which rose upon the twilight breeze with a cautious quaver of sorrow truly heartrending and lugubrious.
Yet how heartrending was the thought that this noble woman, so dearly and so purely loved, would prove one of the most mournful victims of the catastrophe! And in the shrouding gloom he found courage to kneel before her, take her hand, and kiss it. Just as the servant was at last bringing a lighted lamp Gerard made his appearance.
But the moment she heard her Gabriel moving she sprang quickly to her feet, regarded him with a tearful face, and her eye illumined with a holy anger, which made her more lovely to look upon, exclaimed "If you advance a single step towards me, I will make one towards death!" And she took her stiletto in her hand. So heartrending was the tragic spectacle of her grief that Jehan answered her
Then I used to give the day pupils a few sous to bring me, on the sly, a little moist sugar. During recreation I heard some heartrending shrieks, and, rushing to the pool from whence they came, I jumped into the water without reflecting. There was so much mud that we both sank in it. The little girl was only four years old, and so small that she kept disappearing. I was over ten at that time.
But she tore herself away and flung herself face down on the bunk, sobbing more bitterly than ever. He followed, awestricken terrified. He touched her shoulder, but she shrank away and seemed more distressed than ever. It was not the crying of a weak woman: these were heartrending sounds, like the sobbing of a man who has never before known tears. "Jack perhaps I've done something wrong "
These fists became a live fire whereon their lives were boiling. Amidst the night, amidst the heartrending silence that prevailed, the furious grips they exchanged, were like a crushing weight cast on the head of Camille to keep him under water. When the cab stopped, Michaud and his son got out the first, and Laurent bending towards his sweetheart gently murmured: "Be strong, Therese.
"'You may break the seal of this when I am dead. This was most heartrending, coming from a man I loved better than any one in the world excepting my wife. He died that night, in silence, and without a soul near him.
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