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If I could have given him my strength then, brain and body, I would have done it gladly, and that agonised compassion was the strongest feeling I ever had for him." She broke off for a long breath, and sat looking earnestly at the amazed little woman across from her.
It swept across the river to Shepperton, and the water in its track rose in a boiling weal crested with steam. I turned shoreward. In another moment the huge wave, well-nigh at the boiling-point had rushed upon me. I screamed aloud, and scalded, half blinded, agonised, I staggered through the leaping, hissing water towards the shore. Had my foot stumbled, it would have been the end.
"Well, that remains to be seen." This was all he could accomplish. It seemed as if he had looked death itself in the face, and drawn away. "Remains to be seen?" Auntie Clara repeated, with a hint of startled pain, due to this levity. He was mute. No one suspected, as he sat there, so boyish, wistful, and uneasily squirming, that he was agonised to the very centre of his being.
How bitter had been the reverse! and what incidents to fill up the sad volume of the longest life of sorrow and bereavement had not Heaven awarded her in lieu! In one short hour the weight of a thousand worlds had fallen on and crushed her heart; and when and how was the panacea to be obtained to restore one moment's cessation from suffering to her agonised spirit?
Forth from my agonised breast, then; forth, long and cruel torment of a last conversation, which alone, however, when sincere, can alleviate the pain of parting. "This letter brings you the last farewell of your son and your brother.
His mother walked him up and down the room, striving by various blandishments to win him back to smiles, but he kept turning his head over his shoulder to gaze at his new relatives with an expression of agonised incredulity, as though loath to believe that such monsters could really exist on the earth.
But she was too exhausted for any sustained effort of will; and her glance wandered back to, and followed with agonised comprehension, the formless, motionless elevation and depression of that same sheet towards the foot of the bed. The air of the room seemed to grow more oppressive, the silence to deepen, and with it the terrible tension of her mind increased. Suddenly she started to her feet.
"'But, pursued the Count, 'considering the situation of Louis XVI. and that of his family, agonised as they must have been during his absence, from the Queen's impression that the Parisians would never again allow him to see Versailles, how great was our rapture when we saw him safely replaced in his carriage, and returning to those who were still lamenting him as lost!
Another signal to the line of mounted warriors, who, on receiving it, spurred their horses forward with a wild yell. Their spears soon pricked the hips of the mustangs, and the blinded animals sprang towards the cliff! The groans of agonised terror that escaped from their riders were drowned by the yells of the pursuing horsemen. In a moment all was over.
No one would listen to his prayers and entreaties. "Mercy, mercy, for the unfortunates in yonder mansion!" he cried. "Mercy, mercy, Senor Padre! did they ever show mercy to us?" exclaimed a voice from the crowd. He looked back; the Indians were pouring into the house. Loud agonised shrieks of women and children reached his ears.
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