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She'd gossip and pray and preach with anybody. And now she'll weep and pine like that till she dies and she isn't sure even about heaven any more and instead of Jamie, she's got that oafish lad, that changeling, hung round her neck to kick her and ill-treat her in another year or two.
This was one of their cruelties. When little Rajee was suffered to go back to school, she was so ill that she could not rise from her bed. The poor deceived mother came to see her. "I am going to Jesus," said the young martyr. The mother began to weep, "O Rajee, we will not let you die." "But I am glad," the little sufferer replied, "because I shall go to Jesus.
"Why Emily, my royal Emily, come into little mother's room, she has lain down, and tell me why you weep." I yielded gratefully, not gracefully, and we were seated alone, all alone, and he was saying to me: "Emily, tell me what it is, you have troubled me so long, your eyes have grown so sad. Oh! Emily, my darling, may I not know your secret sorrow?
Considering these things, we can hardly think Dinah and Seth beneath our sympathy, accustomed as we may be to weep over the loftier sorrows of heroines in satin boots and crinoline, and of heroes riding fiery horses, themselves ridden by still more fiery passions. Poor Seth! He was never on horseback in his life except once, when he was a little lad, and Mr.
"But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise. He is merry in spite of misfortunes that would cause others to weep and he never speaks harsh words that wound the feelings of his friends." "Still," growled Bilbil, "he is " "Let us forget everything but his good nature, which puts new heart into us when we are sad," advised the boy. "But he is "
"It is my business surely," said mac an Da'v, "for my wife has gone off to Leinster with your wife, and she wouldn't have gone if you hadn't made a bet and a bargain with that accursed king." Mac an Da'v began to weep then. "I didn't make a bargain with any king," said he, "and yet my wife has gone away with one, and it's all because of you."
Wilkie Collins is accredited with having said that the secret of holding the attention of one's readers lay in the ability to do three things: "Make 'em laugh; make 'em weep; make 'em wait." Still abide these three; and the greatest is the last.
And then he saw Mamma as she was when younger, wearing well-worn dresses, which he remembered for such a long time that they seemed inseparable from her; he recollected her movements, the different tones of her voice, her habits, her manias, her fits of anger, the wrinkles on her face, the movements of her thin fingers, and all her well-known attitudes, which she would never have again, and clutching hold of the doctor, he began to moan and weep.
"Well, guard, you need not tie him up this time, but after all I take back nothing that I have said, seeing that in this way or in that they did make you weep. What business had they to insult you with their kindness? Men, henceforth you will be so good as to remember that this maiden is the property of Titus Caesar, and after Caesar, of myself, in whose charge he placed her.
'Tis rather that you love to hear me say it often, than that you doubt it; for I am no dissembler. I think 'twould break my heart sooner than make me shed a tear. 'Tis ordinary griefs that make me weep.
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