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Be it ever, added Mr Wegg in prose as he glanced about the shop, 'ever so ghastly, all things considered there's no place like it. 'You said you'd like to ask something; but you haven't asked it, remarked Venus, very unsympathetic in manner. 'Your peace of mind, said Wegg, offering condolence, 'your peace of mind was in a poor way that night. HOW'S it going on? IS it looking up at all?
Stevenson: 'I gave them to be brought up for me: well done, good and faithful! they are fully prepared, and now I must present them to my father and your father, to my God and your God." It would be hard to lay on flattery with a more sure and daring hand. I quote it as a model of a letter of condolence; be sure it would console.
As Heyward, however, no longer expected that rescue which time and distance now rendered so improbable, he regarded these little peculiarities with an eye devoid of interest, devoting himself entirely to the comfort and condolence of his feebler companions.
A few days after that event, the Court received the regular visits of condolence and congratulation of the nobility, whose duty prescribes their attendance upon such occasions; and some of them, among whom were the daughters of Louis XV., not finding a young Queen of nineteen hypocritically bathed in tears, on returning to their abodes declared her the most indecorous of Princesses, and diffused a strong impression of her want of feeling.
Ninian has just been moved to Colchester. I daresay he has written to you before this. If you would like to come to Boveyhayne just send a telegram to me. That will be sufficient. Believe me, my dear Henry, Your sincere friend, Janet Graham." He remembered Mrs. Graham's letter now, and he went to his writing desk and took it from the notes of condolence he had received.
The eye of God is now upon him, and He can minister to the supplicant. The dead was buried. The hearse was followed by a large concourse of Dr. Humphries' friends, who were brought there by the sad tale of the trials of the Soldier's Wife. The funeral service was read, and after the grave was closed many grouped around Alfred and offered their condolence. He only bowed but made no reply.
Tied to post-office time, with an allowance in some cases of fifty minutes for eleven miles, could the royal mail pretend to undertake the offices of sympathy and condolence? Could it be expected to provide tears for the accidents of the road? If even it seemed to trample on humanity, it did so, I contended, in discharge of its own more peremptory duties.
"DEAR FRIENDS: "Words fall far short in expressing our deep appreciation of your comforting words of condolence and sympathy.
But Bongrand interrupted him in a rough voice: 'No compliments of condolence, my friend, eh? I see clear enough. At this moment somebody nodded to them in a familiar way, and Claude recognised Naudet a Naudet who had grown and expanded, gilded by the success of his colossal strokes of business.
When we address expressions of condolence to bereaved friends, the principles of popular hypocrisy sanction indiscriminate lying as a duty which we owe to the dead no matter what their lives may have been because they are dead. Within my own little sphere, I have always been silent, when I could not offer to afflicted persons expressions of sympathy which I honestly felt.
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