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Presently, in the midst of the torrent of demoniacal names and magic formulas that she sang and warbled out, a piteous and terrifying sound came from behind the curtain as of two persons gasping, sighing, and moaning: one voice seemed to be that of a man oppressed by great anguish; the other was the half-suffocated wailing of a suffering child.
Jacques repeated it all to him after Towaskook, sighing deeply, had risen from his squatting posture, and left them. It was a terrible journey over those mountains, Towaskook had said. He had been on the Stikine once.
There it stands so strong and sturdy, and yet so beautiful, a very type of the best sort of man. How proudly it lifts its bare head to the winter storms, and with what a full heart it rejoices when the spring has come again! How grand its voice is, too, when it talks with the wind: a thousand aeolian harps cannot equal the beauty of the sighing of a great tree in leaf.
"But that's past praying," she ended, sighing again most woefully. "Yet I have been of some service to you." "I thank you for it most heartily," said I, still stiff and cold. "And I was very wrong to-day. Simon, it was on her account." "What?" I cried. "Did Mistress Quinton bid you put your head out and jest with the fellows on the pavement?"
Behold, the spirits of thy life depart Daily to Heaven with her, they so are buoyed With thy desire, and Love so bids them rise. O God I and thou, a man whom God made wise, To nurse a charge of care, and love the same! I tell thee, in His name, From sin of sighing grief to hold thy breath, Nor let thy heart to death, Nor harbour death's resemblance in thine eyes.
But I won't disturb her yet." Sighing faintly, she changed her position, but remained sitting propped against the white pillows in order not to allow herself to be overcome by sleep. But it was a hard struggle, and her lids often fell, her head drooped upon her breast. Dawn was already glimmering without when the supplicant at last rose and sought her couch.
The doctor had given strict orders to keep every excitement from her, but little he thought, good man, that this constant suspense would torment her a thousand times more than the most terrible certainty. One morning, the fifth day after her child's birth, she heard her husband, whom she had scarcely seen during this trying time, pacing up and down in the next room, swearing and sighing.
After the hymns I began to talk, and the candles burnt lower, and some of them flickered out, and I could see a boy here and there twitch a bit of candle as it was going out. I said, “Put the candles out, boys. I can talk in the dark.” It was a wonderful service, and here and there you could hear the boys sighing and crying as they thought of home and father and mother.
'If I were a Christian, she said, in a low tone, 'I should want to get as high up as I could. When they reached Tryphosa's, they heard her singing. They waited, listening. 'Here brief is the sighing, And brief is the crying, For brief is the life! The life there is endless, The joy there is endless, And ended the strife. O country the fairest! Our country the dearest, We press toward thee!
He broke off with a rapt almost angelic expression in his eyes, then sighing a little he resumed: "All dreams of course! ... vague phantoms, creations of my own imaginative brain, yet fair enough to fill my heart with speechless longings for ethereal raptures unseen, unknown!
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