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In the mean time, Aloysia's room was besieged with crowds of anxious visitors and voluntary condolers on her resolution of renouncing wealth, pleasure, and Protestantism, for poverty, Popery, and penance.
Hard and bitter indeed was their lot; for with the poor and desolate, grief is no indulgence of mere sentiment, however sincere, but a gnawing reality, that eats into their vital beings; they have no kind condolers, and bland physicians, and troops of sympathizing friends; and they must toil, though to-morrow be the burial, and their pallbearers throw down the hammer to lift up the coffin.
Ivan heard his servitor inform the would-be condolers that his master had evidently gone out again. There were muffled good-byes and so silence. Twenty minutes later Sósha, dozing in his tiny kitchen, was roused by his master commanding tea at once, and enjoining him to let no one into the rooms that night. At the acknowledgment of this command, Ivan returned to his bedroom, to wait.
In ordinary speech, arm rhymes with calm, morning with fanning, higher with Sophia. The translation of La Fort's book was procured from him and another educated member of his tribe; but there was not time to obtain all the elucidations needed to ensure precise verbal accuracy throughout. The termination sera gives it an abstract sense. It may be rendered "they who sympathize," or "the condolers."
Soon after the death of poor Kate, the attention of the Percy family was taken up by a succession of different visits; some from their old neighbours and really affectionate friends, some from among the band of reproaching condolers.
And if one is to go wrong, I would ten thousand times rather err on that side. But I am sure Joe has been doing right, and nothing else." "Then there's nothing to be said, sir, is there?" she returned, with a sigh that sounded as of relief. I presume some of the surrounding condolers had been giving her Job's comfort by blaming her husband.
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