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The sounds were lofty and animating, they were fitted to inspire gallantry and enterprise into the trembling coward; they were fitted to breathe a soul into the clay-cold corse. The spirit of Arthur was roused; his eye gleamed with immortal fire. The aged oak, that strikes its root beneath the soil, so defies the blast, and so rears its head in the midst of the whirlwind.
'I am sorry to disappoint the company, especially Captain Waverley, who listens with such laudable gravity; it is but a fragment, although I think there are other verses, describing the return of the Baron from the wars, and how the lady was found "clay-cold upon the grounsill ledge." 'It is one of those figments, observed Mr.
She had lived friendless and unfriendly, keeping none of the ten commandments, nor yet the eleventh, which is the greatest of all; and now there was no human being to slip a flower into the still hand, to kiss the clay-cold lips at the remembrance of some sweet word that had fallen from them, or drop a tear and say, "I loved her!"
'I am sorry to disappoint the company, especially Captain Waverley, who listens with such laudable gravity; it is but a fragment, although I think there are other verses, describing the return of the Baron from the wars, and how the lady was found "clay-cold upon the grounsill ledge." 'It is one of those figments, observed Mr.
She made no sound or sign of either anger, or astonishment, or affection. All her being was concentrated on the clay-cold image of humanity lying so strangely still that it filled the whole place with its majesty of silence. He closed the door softly and said "Denasia! Oh, Denasia!"
"Goody-losh!" cried the doctor, taken aback by his appearance "What's come to ye, Noy?" "Death!" says Noy. "Doctor, I hain't come for advice, for before this day week I'll be a clay-cold corpse. I come to ax a favour. When they summon ye, before lookin' at my body that'll be past help go you to the little left-top corner drawer o' my wife's bureau, an' there ye'll find a packet.
The God who fashions children can tell where she learnt that look, and why I remembered it ten years later, when they let me look into the room where she lay with another babe in her clay-cold arms. "Count forty," she went on, using the very words of Pretty Tommy, our parish clerk: "count forty, and let fly with 'Now draw around " "Now draw around, good Christian men, And rest you worship-ping "
I love 'e allus, but I love 'e better in this fiery mood than on the ice-cold days when you won't so much as hold my hand." "The cold mood's the better notwithstanding, and colder yet would be better yet, and clay-cold best of all." But he held her still, and pressed his beard against her brown neck.
He lifted off the face-cloth, gazed on the clay-cold face, touched it, and now was opened the "Sacred source of sympathetic tears." He burst into a loud paroxysm; and, as if nature had been to take her revenge for her sufferings, under the freezing influence of his sorrow, he wept as if there had been to be no end of his weeping.
"Tell me," he said soothingly. "Oh, it was a damp girl!" she cried. "A damp girl!" he echoed in amazement and alarm; for he almost feared his dear wife was going crazy. "Oh yes, a damp girl! A clay-cold, clammy, corpse-like form of a girl!" "Where? when? what about her?" "Oh, I woke up and felt her lying by my side! so close that she chilled and oppressed me!
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