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Updated: May 14, 2025
There reached her from time to time the noises that prevail in those places noises filtering thinly through shutters, the pad of footsteps, and once it seemed to come from some roof invisible above her the sound of sobbing, abandoned, strangled, heart-shaking sobs. She frowned and went on. A spot where the way forked made her hesitate; the men she was following were no longer in sight.
Then for one instant between the shifting heads in front he caught sight of a lean face framed in a flapped cap swaying rhythmically as if borne on a chair. It vanished again. The flashing line of halberds elongated itself, divided, and came between the scaffold and him; and the murmur of the crowd died to a heart-shaking silence.
Three times in rapid succession did that dreadful, heart-shaking cry come wailing to our ears, and then all was silence again for perhaps half a minute, when the men about me began to ask, in low, tense whispers, whence it came, and from what creature.
But the night before us is a night of victory: and behold! to the ordinary display what a heart-shaking addition! horses, men, carriages, all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak leaves and ribbons."
That flesh we had nursed from the first in all cleanness was given To corruption unveiled and assailed by the malice of Heaven By the heart-shaking jests of Decay where it lolled on the wires To be blanched or gay-painted by fumes to be cindered by fires To be senselessly tossed and retossed in stale mutilation From crater to crater. For this we shall take expiation.
The murder which is read of in the Times as having occurred in Westminster, has seldom any special horror to the inhabitants of Islington or Oxford Street; but to the inhabitants of Westminster, and especially to the inhabitants of the particular street in which it was perpetrated, the crime assumes heart-shaking proportions.
Standing before the colossal, towering, amorphous precipice which formed the background of the scena, we feel as if once more the 'heart-shaking sound of Consul Romanus' might be heard; as if Roman knights and deputies, arisen from the dead, with faces hard and stern as those of the warriors carved on Trajan's frieze, might take their seats beneath us in the orchestra, and, after proclamation made, the mortmain of imperial Rome be laid upon the comforts, liberties, and little gracefulnesses of our modern life.
But the night before us is a night of victory; and, behold! to the ordinary display what a heart-shaking addition! horses, men, carriages, all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak-leaves and ribbons.
Never, I think, did He speak with such solemn, heart-shaking emphasis, and He says that it were better a man should die, that he should die this night, die the most miserable and shameful death, than that he should bring the blood of another's soul upon his head.
Finally, the interruption habitually of all ordinary avenues to information about the fate of their dearest relatives; the consequent agitation which must often possess those who are reentering upon home waters; and the sudden burst, upon stepping ashore, of heart-shaking news in long accumulated arrears, these are circumstances which dispose the mind to look out for relief towards signs and omens as one way of breaking the shock by dim anticipations.
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