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Updated: June 20, 2025
There was something inexpressibly mournful in this lonely pilgrimage of the dismantled mansion. Yet there was no show of cheap emotion by Jean Jacques; and a wave of the hand prevented any one from following him in his dry-eyed progress to say farewell to these haunts of childhood, manhood, family, and home.
Of these last would have been Guida. "O Philip, Philip, you have been wicked to me!" she sobbed. Her tears fell upon the stone hearth, and the fire dried them. Every teardrop was one girlish feeling and emotion gone, one bright fancy, one tender hope vanished. She was no longer a girl. There were troubles and dangers ahead of her, but she must now face them dry-eyed and alone.
Her wakeful moments were dry-eyed with despair, and when she slept it was only to come back to a shivering consciousness. Mrs. Finnegan found her next morning fresh from an attempt to rouse her mother into accepting a few swallows of milk, which had ended in pathetic and miserable failure.
"I've got this to be thankful for," she came out again from silence, farther down along the line of her meditations, "that he did live for a few hours. I've got a son, just as much as if he'd grown to be a man." She was dry-eyed, almost joyful in this. "Yes, yes," hurried Gerald, consolingly; "that's what you must always think of that and not the other things.
The girl went through it all, line by line, almost word by word. Whatever there might have been of relationship or friendship between her and the dead man, the news of his terrible end left her shaken, indeed, but dry-eyed.
Her heart trembled with pity for the man beside her, even though speculation wrought the emotion. In her stateroom that night she lay, dry-eyed and wakeful, her inward cry being: "It is a crime to have wounded this innocent man. Why must he be made to suffer?"
The two women embraced; while from the other side of the landau Father Corbelan's emissary, with his ragged beard all streaked with grey, and high, bronzed cheek-bones, stared, sitting upright in the saddle. Then Antonia, dry-eyed, got in by the side of the stretcher, and, after making the sign of the cross rapidly, lowered a thick veil upon her face.
'Aye! he said, lurching forward, 'let's find Saunders coom along let's find Saunders. Mary Anne guided him through the door, Bessie standing aside. As the widow passed, she touched Bessie piteously. 'O Bessie, yer didn't do it say yer didn't! Bessie looked at her, dry-eyed and contemptuous. Something in the speaker's emotion seemed to madden her.
"Come to me, Wullie!" he implored, very pitifully. "'Tis the first time iver I kent ye not come and me whistlin'. What ails ye, lad?" He recrossed the bridge, walking blindly like a sobbing child; and yet dry-eyed. Over the dead body he stooped. "What ails ye, Wullie?" he asked again. "Will you, too, leave me?"
It was a thing beyond belief that one hour could have held such a store of agony. An hour passed, and Cynthia came dry-eyed from the parlor. Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured.
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