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Updated: May 11, 2025
So his feelings were not that strange mixture of grief and protest which seizes upon those to whom death is the ultimate tragedy, the irrevocable disaster, when it falls upon some one near and dear. No, Jack MacRae, brooding by his fire, was lonely and saddened and heavy-hearted.
It was now that he must leave her, and the waves and tempest breast: Heavy-hearted sat they, gazing on the Yokul's flaming crest; And she spoke: "O Ragnas, never, while yon airy peak shall gleam O'er our home, shall I forget thee or our childhood's blissful dream, Until silence, Death and silence, Freeze my heart and memory's stream."
Hank Sterling squeezed the young inventor's arm. "You know Bud's high spirits, skipper," he said. "He may have taken off on some crazy lark." "Sure! A whale hunt, maybe!" Arv Hanson wisecracked, trying to lighten the gloom. Tom forced a grin, but he remained heavy-hearted as they neared the base.
"I am very sorry, sir," said Ruth, her eyes filling with tears; and then she remembered that it was very dull for him to be alone with her, heavy-hearted as she had been all day. She said in a sweet, penitent tone: "Would you be so kind as to teach me one of those games at cards you were speaking about yesterday, sir? I would do my best to learn." Her soft, murmuring voice won its way.
He left Queen Anne's Court soon after this, after having promised Jacob Nowell to return and report progress so soon as there should be anything worth telling. He went back to Wigmore Street heavy-hearted, depressed by the reaction that followed the vain hope which the silversmith's letter had inspired.
The sun sank lower, it was almost gone; this weary day was nearly done; and very sad and heavy-hearted felt this young watcher the day begun in brightness was closing in gloom. It was not all so clear a path as she had thought; there were some things that she could not undo.
But what was to him the most despairing thought of all was this and thinking quietly over it, it seemed to him that if this clearness of vision had quickened his zeal to serve, if it had shown him how true and fierce was the battle to be waged in life, and how few men walked in the peace that was so near them that they could have taken it by stretching out their hand if it had taught him this, had nerved his heart, had sent him speeding into the throng to heal the secret sorrows that his quickened sight could see, then the reason of the gift would have been plain to him; but with the clearer vision had come this deadly apathy, this strange and bitter loathing for a world where all seemed so sweet outwardly and was so heavy-hearted within.
I knew that in the inprepossessing congregation before me there were many boys who had run away from home, and men who had left home because of family troubles. I talked to the young men first, to those who had forgotten their mothers and thought their mothers had forgotten them, and I told of my experiences with waiting, heavy-hearted mothers who had sons at sea.
There were hills in the background, hills right and left of her, orchards, glimpses of woodland here and there a peep of sea pretty enough road to be whirled along in a comfortable carriage with a fast horse, but passing flat, stale, and unprofitable to the heavy-hearted pedestrian.
I learn that Sir Robert Knolles and others have joined you, and we are heavy-hearted to think that the orders of our Kings should debar us from attempting a venture." He and his squire sat down at the places set for them, and filling their glasses drank to the company.
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