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No, there is nothing to tell; only I have been very, very foolish and very, very selfish, and I am going home to-morrow. Good-night." The door closed softly between the two. Then Marguerite sank slowly back upon the bed, closed her eyes, and rocking her head from side to side, said again and again, in moans that scarcely left the lips: "My mother! my mother! Take me back!
At the Cou-Cou you pay for what you eat, not for what you order. And the Signora, Pietro's mother? That unhappy woman usually stands in front of the door, where she interferes with the passage of the girls going for food. She wrings her hands and moans, "Mon Dieu, quel monde!" with the idea that she is helping vastly in the manipulation of the machinery of the place.
Why does he make believe that he is Haggart? It is not my soul. My soul does not know this." "What, Noni?" "I don't know. What terrible dreams there are in this land! Listen. There! Now he will cry and he will say: 'It is Haggart crying. He will call God and will say: 'Haggart is calling. He lies Haggart did not call, Haggart does not know God." He moans again, trying to restrain himself.
"I've a thousand pounds a year, and not sense enough to keep myself on it, let alone a wife. So it's good-by, Katie." Then the weeps came, open eyed; but she didn't try to hide 'em. "Oh, oh!" she moans. "But I was so lonely then, and and I'm so lonely now!" Them few drops of brine turned the trick. "Ah, Katie McDevitt!" says he. "If I could bring back the old Katie! By the soul of me, but I will?
Alarmed, she placed her ear against the partition. She was not deceived; they were stifled groans, moans that were repeated at short intervals. Carefully yet quickly she left her bed, and as the dawn was already shining in the windows, she was able to leave the room without making any noise.
A few seconds more and all was still, only the fire remained, and in the stillness the suppressed sobs and moans of Aldonza were heard. "A light! Fetch a light from the fire!" said Lucas. Ambrose ran out. The flame was lessening, but he could see the dark bindings, and the blackened pages of the books he loved so well. A corner of a page of St.
Before he could speak a word to comfort her, she had burst into the wildest, dreariest crying ever mortal cried. The settled form of the event, when put into words, went sharp to her heart; her moans and sobs wrung his soul; but as no speech of his could be heard, if he had been able to decide what best to say, he stood by her in apparent calmness, while she, wretched, wailed and uttered her woe.
Here also are those who have felt the fearful grasp of pain, whose nerves have been shocked, and the whole frame tortured by untold sufferings; and those who cannot walk forth on God's earth with free elastic step, nor pursue any manly toil the infirm, the crippled, the helpless. How it saddens the heart to look upon them, and hear their moans! Yet they all have a look of hope on their faces.
And then, one afternoon, he disappears. The agony! The remorse! "How could I ever have told our lost angel to stop his darned noise!" moans father. "I struck him!" sobs mother. "With this jewelled hand I spanked our vanished darling!" "We were not worthy to have him," they wail together. "But oh, if we could but get him back!" Well they do.
Reine Allix bowed her head and made the sign of the cross. "I am, praise be to God!" And being happy, she went to the hovel of poor Madelon Dreux, the cobbler's widow, and nursed her and her children through a malignant fever, sitting early and late, and leaving her own peaceful hearth for the desolate hut with the delirious ravings and heartrending moans of the fever-stricken.
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