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Updated: June 25, 2025
But it was not Delphine; it was Therese, her waiting-woman, who stood in the doorway. She fainted, and the doctor came, and she had to be bled, calling out all the while, 'My father is dying; I want to see papa! It was heartbreaking to hear her " "That will do, Therese. If she came now, it would be trouble thrown away. M. Goriot cannot recognize any one now."
He had grown accustomed to the silence of the open spaces, but this silence of the city had a portentous quality which frightened him. It reminded him of that ominous quiet that had settled down on Fairview after that heartbreaking celebration on Christmas Eve. What were men doing with their idle moments? How were they escaping from the drab to-day?
It was in Paris that he married his wife, and in Paris that the melancholy finale came to pass; one of the most heartbreaking chapters in literary history. His little girls lived here with their grandparents.
'The second mate was still alive, but a maniac; it was heartbreaking to hear his broken, feeble cries for his brother, but he lay quiet after a bit, and died in half an hour, though we chafed his feet and poured rum into his mouth, and did what men in our miserable plight could for a fellow-sufferer.
They were on pleasure bent, and had been dreadfully annoyed and disgusted in Galway at the heartbreaking scene attending the departure of some poor Irish emigrants. They are unreasonable in their grief, and take parting as if it were death; but it is as death to many of the aged relatives who will see these faces whom they love no more.
For a moment she stood thus. Then she suddenly lifted her head, her eyes staring, her whole attitude alert, intent. There was a sound outside. She heard the clank of the latch. And now an awkward shuffling gait just outside her door. She moved toward the parlor and stood listening in the doorway. Suddenly a light broke in upon her. That awkward footstep! She knew it! Her relief was heartbreaking.
"If I could only know that nothing evil had befallen her!" Babbie heard him and could not restrain a heartbreaking sob. "What was that?" he said, starting. A moment I waited, to let her show herself if she chose. But the mudhouse was silent again. "It was some boy in the wood," I answered. "Good-bye," he said, trying to smile.
The utter misery of his existence seemed to be brought into full relief by the intense light which inundated the landscape. He saw his twenty years of cafe life dull, monotonous, heartbreaking.
They hid the canoe in the bushes and placed beneath it the iron stove and half their supply of food. Then they plunged into the brush, eastward. Bennie had never known such grueling work and heartbreaking fatigue; and the clouds of flies pursued them venomously and with unrelenting persistence.
In the pale light the shells of wrecked houses glimmered white, like things seen deep down under clear water. They were mysterious as daytime ghosts; and already a heartbreaking picturesqueness had taken possession of the streets, as an artist-decorator comes into an ugly room and mellows all its crudeness with his loving touch.
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