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"No it was not of a significance," she repeated, with a ghost of a little smile. "It was from the Evershams." "Ah! Their condolences, I think?... And is it that they still make the Nile trip?" "Yes.... They went this morning." She spoke hesitantly, averse to having this eager-eyed young host perceive how truly deserted she was. "They expect me to take the express train later and join them."
She seemed very glad to see them, looked as smiling and cheerful as if nothing ailed her; and to all their condolences replied that she did not mind it very much; she was doing nicely papa and everybody else was so kind and the doctor said he hoped she would be able to run about again in a few weeks. They were all around her, talking and laughing in a very animated way, when Mr.
'You may perhaps think me negligent that I have not written to you again upon the loss of your brother; but condolences and consolations are such common and such useless things, that the omission of them is no great crime: and my own diseases occupy my mind, and engage my care. My nights are miserably restless, and my days, therefore, are heavy.
Kitty threw her arms about the neck of that foolish woman, whoso loving heart she could not doubt, and clung sobbing to her. "Gone," she said; and Mrs. Ellison, wise for once, asked no more. She had the whole story that evening, without asking; and whilst she raged, she approved of Kitty, and covered her with praises and condolences. "Why, of course, Fanny, I didn't care for knowing those people.
She made a quaint gesture as of putting something from her. "Yes, quite; and buried decently without any fuss. The blinds are up again, and I don't want any condolences. I'm going out into the sun, Jack. I'm going to live." "And what about me?" said Babbacombe. She turned in her quick way, and laid her hand upon his knee. "Yes, I've been thinking about you.
The afternoon sun looking in through the west window picked out every bare thread of his service coat and glinted on the polished brass buttons. His bayonet was slung into the belt at his side. Ruth Lansing sat mute in her grief at the head of the couch, listening to the comments and stumbling condolences of neighbours from the high hills and the lower valleys.
Finally it reached Bray. "Ah, Rudd," he said, "I believe this is meant for you." Rudd read it, and flushed a dusky red. "Who wrote this?" Proudly the author claimed his work. "Well er let me see," said Rudd: "it is er gross impertinence. Come and see me after breakfast to-morrow." The poet sat down, and his friends showered condolences on him; Bray recommenced his wanderings.
I was not intruded upon in my early grief by their condolences or companionship, they left me uninterrupted to my broodings and my tears, as if I had not the same right to the privileges of investigating our altered affairs as they. Oh, how slow and how weary are those moments of solitary anguish, when the great tide of universal sympathy is ebbing from us in our grief!
And he who had thought to stand before these people in shame to receive their condolences now perceived that his trial would be of another but hardly less-distressing sort. For somehow, so dense were these good folks, that he must seem to be not displeased with his own performance. Amazingly they congratulated him, struggling with reminiscent laughter as they did so.
Browning's acquaintance continued to condemn the too great honour which was being done to him; from those of the inner circle he constantly received condolences on being made the subject of proceedings which, according to them, he must somehow regard as an offence. This was the last view of the case which he was prepared to take.
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