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'I shall not forget who was my old companion when I had none, Susan, returned Florence, gently, 'never! And looking up, she put her arm round the neck of her humble friend, drew her face down to hers, and bidding her good-night, kissed it; which so mollified Miss Nipper, that she fell a sobbing.
He took her in his arms, and she broke down and cried, sobbing out a catalogue of griefs that was only half coherent. But he saw at once that she had been neglected and slighted, nay more, that she had been somehow wounded to the quick. His clasped hand trembled on his knee. This was hospitality! He had gauged Lady Driffield well. 'An early train? he said, with frowning decision. 'Yes, of course.
She could not have borne to see the waves white on the beach and the blue horizon; the sea that she had loved so, that she had called her friend, would break her heart with its song of memories. She must not think of anything now, only, if it might be, put her soul to sleep and let the sobbing waters of oblivion bear it onwards through the desolate hours.
She recognized Mary Trent, the daughter next in age to Rosa, who fell upon her neck in a sobbing embrace, then the other sisters and their brother, Morton Tazewell, with his wife, and was formally presented to their children. Finally she turned inquiringly toward a gentleman who stood against the window opposite the door, with a little girl beside him.
Closer and closer she clung to the broad breast whereon she lay, and that heart, so well drilled and confined, ran over in one supreme moment of mingled happiness and anguish, while the recollections of her youthful love passed through her sobbing heart. "It was not my fault it was not my fault!" she repeated plaintively, like a child who has had the misfortune to break something.
"As might be expected, there were not many dry eyes in that court when, a moment later, the boy was sobbing on his mother's wet shoulder, and she, rocking to and fro, was saying softly 'Poor Terrence, my poor Terrence." "I want to see you at the office," said the amateur official, and Patsy was very much surprised at the brevity of the speech.
"There there mais voyons!" I exclaimed in a vain effort to stop her tears "mais voyons! Come, you must not cry like that." Little by little she ceased crying, until her sobbing gave way to brave little hiccoughs, then, at length, she opened her eyes. "Suzette," I whispered the thought flashing through my mind, "is it possible that you love Monsieur Tanrade?"
As she threw open the door, old Cæsar and Nan rushed forward together from the kitchen, exclaiming, half sobbing, "Oh, Miss Hetty! Miss Hetty! we made sure you was killed." "Nonsense, Nan!" said Hetty, goodnaturedly: "what put such an idea into your head? Haven't I ridden Polly many a darker night than this?" "Yes'm," sobbed Nan; "but to-night's different.
His compassion was moved; he apprehended that the cold, which he felt himself to be severe, had made her ill, and he inquired what was the matter with her, in a tone of real commiseration. "I am so so very ignorant," said Matilda, sobbing. "Oh, that's it!" cried Charles, gaily; "then you and I may shake hands, for I am ignorant too."
Mary, meantime, dreadfully alarmed, and perceiving that, in some way, she was the cause, had thrown herself upon Margaret, sobbing inconsolably, as she begged to know what was the matter, and why papa was angry with Tom had she made him so?
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