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It sank back upon her face dropped a cloud of heartbreak, appalling woe; the despair of a soul that, having withdrawn all faith in its own kind to rest all faith, as it thought, on angels sees that faith betrayed. There stared upon us a stripped spirit, naked and hopeless and terrible. Despairing, raging, she screamed once more.
"I wish I could see you more clearly," he said presently. His voice as well as his words expressed profound regret, but there was no hint of despair or heartbreak now. Bryce, who up to this moment had refrained from discussing his father's misfortunes, drew the old man a little closer to his side. "What's wrong with your eyes, pal?" he queried.
This broke her down again, and there was another scene that was full of heartbreak. By and by I made another diversion, and beguiled her to sketch her story. "Ye know it well yourselves, having suffered it for truly none of our condition in Britain escape it. It is the old, weary tale.
From her Home Counties, from her Empire beyond the Seas, her millions have arisen, brothers in arms henceforth, bonded together by a spirit of noble self-sacrifice men grimly determined to suffer wounds and hardship and death itself, that for those who come after them, the world may be a better place and humanity may never again be called upon to endure all the agony and heartbreak of this generation.
It seemed as though the spirit revellers were pouring fiery jewels from the skies. Ootah stood before that revealed and radiant land of the dead the dead who danced and were happy his hands clenched and upraised above him. "Annadoah! Annadoah!" he sobbed the name again and again, and in his voice throbbed all the piteousness, all the bitterness of his utter heartbreak.
All the town was drifting toward the graveyard. Tom's heartbreak vanished and he joined the procession, not because he would not a thousand times rather go anywhere else, but because an awful, unaccountable fascination drew him on. Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle. It seemed to him an age since he was there before.
For Jed, although he had heard but the barest fragment of the story of "Uncle Charlie," a mere hint dropped from the lips of a child who did not understand the meaning of what she said, had heard enough to make plain to him that the secret which the young widow was hiding from the world was a secret involving sorrow and heartbreak for herself and shame and disgrace for others.
"God forbid," said Lord Glenallan, "that I should on light occasion disturb your sorrow; but my days are numbered your mother-in-law is in the extremity of age, and, if I see her not to-day, we may never meet on this side of time." "And what," answered the desolate mother, "wad ye see at an auld woman, broken down wi' age and sorrow and heartbreak?
Gilbert says there is no hope. He knew from the first the little thing couldn't live." "And it is such a sweet baby," sobbed Susan. "I never saw one so white they are mostly red or yallow. And it opened its big eyes as if it was months old. The little, little thing! Oh, the poor, young Mrs. Doctor!" At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it.
"I know you'll laugh at the way I play the accompaniment. One's fingers have to be used to it from childhood " Her eyes finished the sentence, "and you know what mine was." The look seemed to seal their secret sympathy. She went to the piano and sang in a thin but trained soprano. The song was a ballad with a quaint air full of sadness and heartbreak.
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