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Updated: June 15, 2025
He took the poet's hand in his own, and stroked it gently; Honora wiped the face of the other; Grahame on his knees said the prayers he remembered for sinners and passing souls; secretly Arthur put in his pocket a rag stained with death-sweat and life-blood. Almost in silence, without painful struggle, the boys died.
"It's right," he said, when he could trust himself to speak; "but I did want to see her. Tell her I am willing." The last seemed wrung from him almost against his will, and drops of sweat stood thickly upon his brow. Only Bell and her father guessed what he meant by being willing. Morris had no idea, but he wiped the death-sweat away, and said, soothingly: "Be quiet, and you may see her yet.
"Though she'd ha' been that, if it hadn't been for Mary Malone." "She's mine, an' she 'as the marriage lines," said Henry Withers. "An' there's a kid-wich ain't mine born six months after! 'Oo says no kid won't remark, 'Poor Peter Macnamara, 'ee is gone, wich'ee was my fader!" Macnamara trembled; the death-sweat dropped from his forehead as he raised himself up.
The doctor was in Lily's presence, and in fancy it was her hand, not Irving's which wiped the death-sweat from his brow, and he murmured words of love and fond endearment, as to a living, breathing form. Fainter and fainter grew the pulse, weaker and weaker the trembling voice, until at last Irving could only comprehend that some one was bidden to pray to say "Our Father."
They were the last lines in the first act, and I dared not think of what followed dared not, even in the spring sunshine, there in my own room, surrounded with familiar objects, reassured by the bustle from the street and the voices of the servants in the hallway outside. For those poisoned words had dropped slowly into my heart, as death-sweat drops upon a bed-sheet and is absorbed.
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