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Thou wouldest not have mourned over the brevity of human affection as compared to the duration of thine own existence, for thou wouldest have survived the very desire and dream of the love of woman.
She mourned his loss as that of a loved brother a dear friend one in whom she confided. She found much comfort in the thought of having done her best. She had fulfilled her duty she had struggled bravely. She had cheered her husband's path through life she had kept her secret made one being happy. Surely such thoughts must have offered some relief.
Bloundel's fortitude to support him under the shock of this intelligence, and he did not communicate the afflicting tidings to his wife until he had prepared her for their reception. But she bore them better than he had anticipated; and though she mourned her daughter deeply and truly, she appeared completely resigned to the loss.
Some officials found their profits threatened, some mourned for perquisites that were cut off, some were ousted out of their places to make room for Japanese, and most felt a not unnatural anger to see men of another race quietly assume authority over their Emperor and their country. The Emperor led the opposition. Old perils had taught him cunning.
But Ahaktah's throat got worse; he died, and while his wives and children wept for him, he had started on his long journey to the land of spirits. He was wrapped in scarlet cloth, and laid upon a scaffold. His wives sat weeping in their teepee, when a cry from their young children drew their attention to the door. There stood he for whom they mourned.
What joy and feasting there was throughout the palace at the sight of the princess whom they had mourned as dead! and they could not make enough of the boy who had gone through such dangers in order to rescue her.
I never knew her husband, though we were distant kin, nor yet herself during the long years through which she mourned him. Catherine Evers was beginning to recover her interest in the world when first we met; but she never returned to that identical fold of society in which she had been born and bred.
He, poor fellow, mourned much for his Peggy, as he called the pretty young heathen wife he had left behind him in Waally's country. "Forthwith a guard at every gun Was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof Of Edgecombe's lofty hall; And many a fishing bark put out, To pry along the coast; And with loose rein, and bloody spur Rode inland many a post." The Spanish Armada. Macauley.
He imagined that he was being arrested; and in the fight that he made he was shot dead by his own nephew, on the road between Detroit and Sandusky. Many mourned Cornstalk. "Who was there to mourn Logan" the "friend of the white man?" "Not one!" But the name "Logan" was worn, like a badge of honor, by others in the Mingo people.
Barrie was drawn to them as by many magnets, and almost tremulously taking down one after another, she understood the reason of their banishment. Barrie had mourned her friends as dead, but they had been only sleeping.
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