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"Farewell, dearest!" said the heart-stricken girl; and Juanita left the chamber. Before a silver crucifix, Magdalena knelt in prayer. "Father of mercies, blessed Virgin, absolve me of the sin if sin it be to rush unbidden to the presence of my Judge! My burden is too great to bear!" She rose from her knees, took from a cupboard a goblet of Venetian glass, and a flask of Xeres wine.
The man in him had flashed out at her, and because she was not without the heart whose whereabouts he had demanded, the flash awakened an answering fire. Her cheeks flushed, not with self-consciousness, but with the slow gathering of heart-stricken tears. "And you," she said slowly, "you have poured out blood and soul for us all freely, but why?" The imperious need of truth awoke again.
"D n your prayers over that thing! overboard with it, and down to your gun!" roared a wounded Lieutenant. The order was obeyed, and the heart-stricken sailor returned to his post. Tawney's recitals were enough to snap this man-of-war world's sword in its scabbard.
But I came here a gay girl; I visited at Whitethorn before my marriage, Joanna; I dwelt here a thoughtless, happy young wife; and here I kept Harry, not quite so troublesome as now; and here I lay a heart-stricken widow while they were bringing home the corpse of my husband, who had left me a vigorous, determined man two hours before."
But I could not remain there in the darkness and listen to such a prayer as that going forth from the lips of that poor convict; so I glided back through the darkness into my own room, and left him there alone, pleading with his Creator for his lone and helpless ones at home. Reader, did God listen to the wails of that poor heart-stricken prisoner? Yes! yes! yes!
She however never saw her son again until, upon a dying bed, she gave him her last embrace and blessing. The hurried journey, and the terrible anxiety caused by the arrest and peril of her son, inflicted a blow upon Hortense from which she never recovered. Weary months passed away in the solitude of Arenemberg, until at last the heart-stricken mother received a package of letters from the exile.
At length his last ducat was gone. He rose and left the room, the last words ringing in his ears being, "Make your game, gentlemen, while the ball rolls." Despairing and heart-stricken, the young man sought his hotel and his chamber. On the staircase he encountered Madame Von Berlingen, but he saw her not. His eyes were glazed. He did not notice or return her salutation.
Imagination pictured too vividly the heart-stricken father who had so often looked down upon him when a boy with pride and pleasure, and the tender, but now agonized mother, as that appalling announcement met their eyes. Again, for the fifth time, he took up his pen, murmuring in a low tone, yet with a resolute air, "It must be done!" He had again written the words: "My Dear Parents "
Webster was a disappointed, heart-stricken man, and he retired to Marshfield profoundly disgusted with the insincerity of politicians. The noisy rejoicings by the Whigs at Washington over the nomination of General Scott disturbed Henry Clay, who lay on his death-bed at the National Hotel, attended only by one of his sons, Thomas Hart Clay, and a negro servant.
There was such an air of patient and enduring suffering to the whole group, that, as I gazed heart-stricken upon it, my fortitude quite gave way, and I burst into tears. Mrs. N first broke the painful silence, and, rather proudly, asked me to whom she had the pleasure of speaking.
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