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Then, horrified at herself, flung herself over on her pillow, and, burying her face from the light of day, sobbed long with a tearless sobbing, bringing no relief; and so at last lay still.
"You liked her," I say, in a perfectly collected, tearless voice, "did not you? You were very kind and forbearing to them all, always I am very grateful to you for it but you liked her of your own accord you would have liked her, even if she had not been one of us, would not you?" I seem greedy to hear that she was dear to everybody. "I was very fond of her," he answers, in a choked voice.
I passed my hand over my eyes, tearless, but how tears would have relieved the anguish that burdened them! and, without a word, went down the stairs, meeting at the landing-place Colonel Poyntz and the old man whose pain my prescription had cured. The old man was whistling a merry tune, perhaps first learned on the playground. He broke from it to thank, almost to embrace me, as I slid by him.
Not long after Hester came, the little Bella scarce awake in her arms, with the purpose of bringing his child to see him ere yet he passed away. Hester had watched and prayed through the livelong night. And now she found him dead, and Sylvia, tearless and almost unconscious, lying by him, her hand holding his, her other thrown around him.
Her least anxiety was for the elder sister. The agony of Norah's grief had forced its way outward to the natural relief of tears. It was not so with Magdalen. Tearless and speechless, she sat in the room where the revelation of her father's death had first reached her; her face, unnaturally petrified by the sterile sorrow of old age a white, changeless blank, fearful to look at.
That evening as Hubert returned from a busy day in town he found his sister singing; "'O joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be." "Singing, little sister?" was his greeting. "Yes, Hubert. That has been much of my occupation to-day." "That is good," he replied.
It was something for the Doctor that a second dispassionate study should be given to the case, but his heart sank as he thought of that cold, hard statement of evidence, without the counter testimony of the honest, tearless eyes and simple good faith of the voice and tone.
Oh, God, I have paid for my wanton folly and wickedness. Oh, God!" Kate buried her face in her hands, and abruptly flung herself into the rocker close behind her. Fyles looked down upon her in amazed helplessness. He watched the woman's heaving shoulders as great, dry, hard sobs broke from her in tearless agony.
Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction. Hopping back into her dwelling, she asked: "My son, did my voice bring tears to your eyes? Did my words bring gladness to your ears? Do you not like my wailing better?" "No, no!" pouted the boy with some impatience. "I want to hear the woman's voice!
"It is I who ought to ask your pardon," he replied. "I beg you to forgive me, Valeria, for having made you my wife." He pronounced those words with a hopeless, heart-broken humility dreadful to see. I laid my hand on his bosom. I said, "Eustace, look at me." He slowly lifted his eyes to my face eyes cold and clear and tearless looking at me in steady resignation, in immovable despair.
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