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For several hours after this, I lay in a sort of half stupor that is, my mind was in this state, but unfortunately my body was not so. On the contrary, I was racked with severe bodily pain the pain of extreme thirst perhaps the most grievous and hardest to endure of all physical suffering.
The poor creature lying there, racked, in truth, with pain and sorrow, altogether incapable of any escape from her aunt's gripe, would not say a word that might tend to ease Lady Ball's mind. If she had told all that she knew, all that she surmised, how would her aunt have rejoiced? That the money should come without the wife would indeed have been a triumph!
A stream bubbled and sang over stones behind the inn. The courtyard below was very silent. She laid a hand upon his sleeve and said again in a pleading voice, "Let me watch to-night. There is no danger. You are racked by sleeplessness, and phantoms born of it wear the face of truth to you. We are safe; we are in Italy. The stars tell me so. Let me watch to-night." And at once she was startled.
What, for instance, could be more poignantly sad than this 'Enfant Malade' group, with the father, racked with anxiety, bending over the pillow of his fragile little son, and the mother, already in an attitude of despair, at the foot of the bed? The whole thing is great in its profound humanity. "The 'Bénédiction de l'Aïeule' is less tragic.
Never, never, never!" cried Lucretia, with suppressed but most earnest vehemence, her breast heaving, her hands, as he dropped the one he held, clasped together, her eyes full of tears, transformed at once into softness, meekness, even while racked by passion and despair.
"Swear to me!" she panted; then, as if ashamed of the passion that racked her, her eyes dropped and the swift red flooded her face. "No! you shall not swear to me, Stafford. I I will believe you love me as I shall love you forever and forever! But if if the time should come when some other girl shall win you from me, promise me that you will not tell me, that you will just keep away from me!
I have had all the five; and had them 'bad; but ask me not, in mournful numbers, which one racked me hardest, or which one numbered the biggest sick list, for I do not know. In truth, no one can answer the latter question. Mississippi Improvement is a mighty topic, down yonder.
He stopped at that, stopped dead, with the book in his hands, shut; no expression in his eyes and his lips drawn down in bitterness. At last he said, as though he had once more forgotten Christophe's presence: "Ah! the worst misery of all is that there is not a single man who can understand you!" Christophe was racked with emotion.
It is almost inconceivable that you should have borne the same name Joanne. Joanne, of 'Fair Play." She gave a little gasp. "Joanne was terrible," she cried. "She was bad bad to the heart and soul of her!" "She was splendid," replied Aldous, without a change in his quiet voice. "She was splendid but bad. I racked myself to find a soul for her, and I failed. And yet she was splendid.
Get up, and mind your own business, go on with your common labour, and let the ship and her crew go to the devil if they like. For the matter of that, this advice perforce I had to follow, for I did not possess one single clue at that moment; and although I racked my brains for one all the afternoon, and went often to the hill-top to see if the nameless ship yet lay in the dock, I could pick up no new thread, nor light upon any infinitesimal vein of material.
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