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With a cry wrung from him by pain such as few mortals have ever experienced and survived, the stricken man fell unconscious to the floor his arm frozen as solid as crystallized steel. In the confusion that followed the sudden extinction of the candle, while Ned was freeing Alan and Jack Jellup was uttering heartrending groans, the marshal's confederate lost his nerve and made his escape.
Hardly was she in the saddle when a heartrending war-whoop sounded on their flank, and she knew that they were surrounded! Instinctively she reached for her husband's second quiver of arrows, which was carried by one of the pack ponies. Alas! the Crow warriors were already upon them! The ponies became unmanageable, and the wild screams of women and children pierced the awful confusion.
After the neighbors, then followed the gradual separation from his friends one by one left him, as in the great journey of life, and in a few hours he found himself accompanied only by his favorite brother. This to him was the greatest trial he had yet felt; long and heartrending was their embrace. Jemmy soothed and comforted his beloved brother, but in vain.
But never, since history began, has disaster come upon the coast like to that which befell the little town of Eyemouth in the early autumn of 1881, never has loss of life so heartrending overwhelmed a small community.
He knew this, yet it was terrible to hear it from her lips; she was so young and had such an air of purity and innocence. But more heartrending yet was the groan with which she burst forth in another moment, as if impelled by conscience to unburden herself from some overwhelming load: "I took them; I could not help it; but I did not keep them; you know that I did not keep them.
Harding himself, when he heard how the matter had been settled, without troubling himself much on the subject, considered it as certain that he would go back to his pleasant house and garden. And though there would be much that was melancholy, nay, almost heartrending, in such a return, he still was glad that it was to be so. His daughter might probably be persuaded to return there with him.
That artist was there in triumph; but he had no name. The ancient world called him the Slave. From this advancing machine of millions, the slighter array of the Allies, and especially the British at their ultimate outpost, saved themselves by a succession of hair's-breadth escapes and what must have seemed to the soldiers the heartrending luck of a mouse before a cat.
You have given me trouble enough, and have made far too many excuses. I shall wait no longer." "Oh, once more! only once more!" was the answer, interrupted by heartrending sobs, in whose voice I rather guessed than heard. Neither would I wait any longer. I never thought about ceremony and gentility, any more than about the possible dangers, known and unknown, which I might be running.
But, with all this misery, we still found them full of enthusiasm, especially when the trucks in which they had to be sent on down the line were covered with Transvaal and Free State flags. They sang our National Anthem as if they had not a care in the world. Many burghers found their families amongst these exiles, and some heartrending scenes were witnessed.
I wondered whether anything like that might be found to be the fate of the once jovial and popular Murtha, when we found him. I almost forgot our mission in the horror of the place, for, nearby was an even more heartrending sight.
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