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He's dead," he added with a sob. The news seemed to strike the office dumb. The clerks regarded each other like bewildered sheep, awed, terrified, a vague fear gripping their hearts. In the midst of their furious, living activity, the specter of death had suddenly appeared. It had crept in on them silently, stealthily, selecting the most shining mark as its victim.
Bending above her he gave her the whole story of the night, and she scarcely interrupted with a question, sitting there dry-eyed, with only an occasional sob shaking her slender form. As he ended, she looked up into his face, and now he could see a mist of unshed tears in her eyes. "What shall I do, Captain Keith? I am all alone with this, except for you."
Yet a little while, and you too shall make voyages and conquests; new worlds lie waiting for you, who are so greatly astonished at this Old World; far journeys by land and sea, and the company of courtiers and kings; and much honour from the name and deeds of him who looked into your eyes with a laugh and, a sob, and was so very large and overshadowing!
"I don't know about anybody else," said she sweetly and gently, "but I do know about me." "No use too late. I've lost my nerve." He began to sob. "It's because I'm unstrung," explained he. "Don't think I'm a poor contemptible fool of a whiner. . . . Yes, I am a whiner! Susie, I ought to have been the woman and you the man. Weak weak weak!"
When he was gone, she knelt down by her window, remembering that night long ago, free to sob and weep out her joy, very sure that her Master had not forgotten to hear even a woman's prayer, and to give her her true work, very sure, never to doubt again. There was a dark, sturdy figure pacing up and down the road, that she did not see.
He marries the sweet Marianna, the lucky Pasquale! He always knew the little dove loved him; it was but the devil that led her astray." In that case, Doctor Graziano said, everything was well, and there was no cause for lamentation. But Pasquarello began to sob and cry more violently than before, and at last fell down in a faint, as if overcome by his terrible sorrow.
I am lost, I am disfigured forever." She fell back in her armchair and began to sob. The doctor took a chair, sat down beside her, and said soothingly in a gentle tone: "Come, let me see; I assure you it is nothing. With a slight cauterization I will make it all disappear." She shook her head in denial, without speaking.
'I declare, if you were a little older you and I would go off on a tour round the world and search for this runaway father of yours. This idea was a risky one to propose, but he felt desperate at the sight of the child's grief. Bobby raised his eyes for the first time. The tears did not hide the dawn of hope springing up in them. 'I'm old enough, he said, choking down a sob; 'please take me.
The next moment, to my horror, Alma Pflugel had dropped to her knees before the table in the damp little arbor, her face in her hands, her spare shoulders shaking. "Ich kann's nicht thun!" she moaned. "Ich kann nicht! Ach, kleine Schwester, wo bist du denn! Nachts und Morgens bete ich, aber doch kommst du nicht." A great dry sob shook her.
The little girl hastened from her seat, and put her arm about his neck. 'Do I love thee, Nell? said he. 'Say do I love thee, Nell, or no? The child only answered by her caresses, and laid her head upon his breast. 'Why dost thou sob? said the grandfather, pressing her closer to him and glancing towards me.
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