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He never entered in with the young men exactly as a companion again; but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man. And when Nolan died, there was found in his Bible a slip of paper at the place where he had marked the text: "They desire a country, even a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He hath prepared for them a city."
"Cause he wad be meeserable whaur there was nae drunk fowk," answered Mysie. And now it seemed to the poor, shocked, heart-wounded creature, as if the human face were just the one thing he could no more look upon. One haunted him, the black one, with the white, staring eyes, the mouth in its throat, and the white grinning teeth.
He lighted up occasionally I remember late in his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Fléchier's sermons but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man. When Captain Shaw was coming home if, as I say, it was Shaw rather to the surprise of everybody they made one of the Windward Islands, and lay off and on for nearly a week.
He sat kicking his heels against the valance of the bed, and thinking. May Gold, Norah MacMulty, the dreadful hour of the lost innocence, Claudia, Annette, Gertrude what an incredible list of follies for one man to have committed! He grew intensely bitter and self-disdainful. There was no answer for the letter of the heart-wounded Gertrude.
He lighted up occasionally, I remember late in his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Fléchier's sermons, but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
He did not seem heart-broken or even heart-wounded he did his parish work with unfailing diligence; but as, Sunday after Sunday, he passed from the Manse garden through the kirk-yard, where, green and moss-covered now, was the one white stone which bore the name of "Helen Lindsay, wife of the Reverend Alexander Cardross," he was often seen to glance at it less sorrowfully than smilingly.
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