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The mother observed and rose also. She laid her hand on his own: "Poor boy! why do you weep? can we relieve you?" Now that bright gleam of human nature, suddenly darting across the sombre recollections and associations of his past life, seemed to Morton as if it came from Heaven, in approval and in blessing of this attempt at reconciliation to his fate.
Oh! my friend, you know our heart-rending emotion at this mournful and solemn moment; this emotion is, even now, as poignant as at the time. In writing these words to you, I weep like a child. I saw her this morning; although she seemed to me less pale than usual, and declares she does not suffer, her health makes me anxious.
"Do you not see him in his launch?" "Oh, yes, now I do; but surely he does not remember, that if anything should strike him, it would make the whole army weep why does he expose himself like that?" "Indeed, it is his place!" "No, it's not " "It is" "It isn't. Look here, what would you do to-morrow if the Little Corporal was killed?" "But I tell you it is his place!"
Yet I was anew distressed by the discovery that my thoughts found their way to my lips, without my being conscious of it, and that my steps wandered forth unknowingly and without the guidance of my will. The story you have told is not incredible. The disaster to which you allude did not fail to excite my regret. I can still weep over the untimely fall of youth and worth.
But he was not yet ascended. With a strength seeming wonderful when they thought of it afterwards, he signed to the major. "Majie," he whispered, with a look and expression into the meaning of which the major all his life long had never done inquiring, "Majie! Corney! you tell!" Then he went. I think it was the grief at the grave of Lazarus that made our Lord weep, not his death.
When the pipe had gone its round, the chief, without rising from his seat, delivered a speech of some length, after which several of the Indians began to weep, and they were soon joined by the whole party. It lasted for about ten minutes, after which all tears were dried away, and the honours of the feast were performed by the attending chiefs."
"To think!" sobbed Wul-Takim, miserably; "only to think, that after all my terrible deeds and untold wickedness, I have been captured by a mere boy! Oh, boo-hoo! boo-hoo! boo-hoo! It is a terrible disgrace!" "You will not have to bear it long," said the prince, soothingly. "I am going to hang you in a few minutes." "Thanks! Thank you very much!" answered the king, ceasing to weep.
And as he spake the thought of the House and the garden, and the pleasant fields of Upmeads came into his heart so bitter-sweet, that it mingled with his sorrow, and well-nigh made him weep. But as for Richard he forebore words, for he was sad at heart for the sundering. Then he gat to horse, and the whole company of them bestirred them, and they rode out a-gates.
Dorothy did not know whether she wanted to weep or be angry. Pique and a flash of temper, however, saved her from tears, and she said, "You are so brave and handsome that you must have found it a very easy task much easier than it would be for me to convince those confiding ones of your affection?"
That is rare clemency in these days, and Heaven only knows how long it may last. You wear a sword? Then shed no tears to rust it. Time enough to weep, man, when there is blood to be washed from the blade." "You speak boldly," said the youth, checking his emotion somewhat, "but had they hung your father before his own door "
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