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"Her world will be an empty one!" he said, with an expressive gesture "A world without fruit or flower, without light or song! A dreary world! But such as it is, such as it is bound to be, it can live on, a life-in-death." "Are you quite sure of this?" Morgana asked "Can any of us, however wise, be quite sure of anything?" His frown relaxed and his whole features softened.
And thus confronted with a tragedy more dire and personal than any she had ever pictured in her wildest imaginative efforts, she sat by Maryllia's bedside, hour after hour, day after day, night after night, stunned by grief, watching, weeping, and waiting for the least glimmer of returning consciousness in that unconscious form which lay so terribly inert, like a figure of life-in-death before her, till she became the mere gaunt, little ghost of herself, her large melancholy dark eyes alone expressing the burning vital anguish of her soul.
At the moment when Ulpius had relinquished his grasp of her hand, Antonina had sunk to the ground, helpless and resigned, but not exhausted beyond all power of sensation or all capacity for thought. While she lay on the cold pavement of the street, her mind still pursued its visions of a speedy death, and a tranquil life-in-death to succeed it in a future state.
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