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Raising her tear-stained face at last, Sister Wynfreda said humbly, "God pardon me if I sin in my grief, but to me it seems so bitter a thing when trouble comes upon the young. The first fall of the young bird in its flight, the first blow that startles the young horse, I flinch before them as before my own wounds.
Donald did not stop to argue, but placed his strong hands on either side of her slender waist and lifted her lightly to the homemade table, while she gasped and again the wonderful smile, more shy this time, transformed her tear-stained face.
Her answer came between sobs, "I walked." "You have done an unspeakably mad thing, Marian," he said quietly. "You can't stay here. There is no one in this house but myself; even my servant is away to-night. Why didn't you go to 'The Crags'?" She lifted a tear-stained face and shot her answer at him scornfully. "'The Crags'! I had to talk to some one who was human.
She turned to Ross, a tear-stained face on which her gratitude at his offer struggled with her woes and the Horror of the Situation. "My ... my fa-ther...." she began brokenly, and then gulped, and stopped. It sounded very much like a greeting of the man before her, but it was only that her unruly voice refused entirely to respond to her efforts to use it.
During the service the thirty-ninth Psalm, Luther's Hymn, and two chorales were sung. The Prince of Wales bore up with a brave effort, now and then seeking to soothe his young brother, who, with swollen eyes and tear-stained face, when the long wail of the dirge smote upon his ear, sobbed as if his heart were breaking. At the words "To fall asleep in slumber deep, Slumber that knows no waking,"
She halted and turned her tear-stained face toward him. "People will think I'm crazy!" she sobbed. "A girl like me selling flowers on the street of a Sunday morning!" "Wait!" That had changed his mind. "Give 'em t' Johnnie." Johnnie went to her. But for a moment he did not take the roses, only looked up, twisting his fingers, and working a big toe. His teeth were set hard.
The matron's warning inquiry, what had become of her favorite's high-minded calm, and her advice to restrain her weeping, lest she should appear before the public in the Amphitheater with tear-stained eyes, helped her to compose herself. The tire-woman had not finished her work when Alexander returned, and Melissa dared not turn her head for fear of disturbing her in her task.
The bishop unfolded the missive, which was in a pouch ready for sealing. Yolanda stopped sobbing that she might hear the document that touched so closely on her fate. Her tear-stained face, with its childlike pathos, but served to increase her father's anger. "Read, my Lord Bishop! Body of me, why stand you there like a wooden quintain?" exclaimed the duke. "By all the gods, you are slow!
Miss Katrine! Your father," her voice broke and went up in a wail, "your father's come home to ye " Katrine, who had arisen, stood with tear-stained face regarding her. "He is ?" She could not go on with the question, but Nora answered it without its being finished. "He has not been drinking. Oh, Miss Katrine, he's past that! Can't ye understand? The hand of God's upon him!
Hark! that's her!" Yes; in she came, with her usually calm face all tear-stained and sorrow-marked. "What's the matter, my wench?" said Job hastily. "O grandfather! Alice Wilson's so bad!" She could say no more for her breathless agitation. The afternoon, and the parting with Will, had weakened her nerves for any after-shock. "What is it?
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