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Updated: June 4, 2025
'All such partings are hard, and your grandmother's life has been so lonely and joyless that the memory of it must always have a touch of pain. One cannot say of her as we can of the happy; she has lived her life all things have been given to her, and she falls asleep at the close of a long and glorious day.
But his good-humor was not communicated to her. The last moments they passed together were spoiled for her always by the presentiment that he would not say at parting the thing that he should say. Ordinarily, he quitted her brusquely, as if what had happened were not to last. At every one of their partings she had a confused feeling that they were parting forever.
As it is, you have what can never be taken from you; and so if we go on steadfastly, as I said, content not to see before us, but cherishing and making the best of what we have to-day, the best of what to-day holds will be ours forever, till death comes to end all the partings and all the sorrow." The last words were spoken rather to herself than to Margaret.
Or, in absence, the almost interminable letters positive love-letters, full of "dearest" and "beloveds," and sealing-wax kisses. Then the delicious meetings sad partings, also quite lover-like in the multiplicity of tears and embraces embraces sweeter than those of all the world beside and tears But our own are gathering while we write Ah! We also have been in Arcadia.
Her courage had revived during this recital of her future. "What do you expect me to do," she asked contemptuously "fall on your neck and thank you, you with your thousand a year and your church-door partings? No, doctor, if you are sane then you are either a great fool or a great scoundrel. I would never dream of marrying you under any circumstances. And now I think you had better go."
What a singular destiny was theirs! that, after a life of such passionate and disastrous love, such sorrows, and tears, and penitence their very dust should not be suffered to rest quietly in the grave! that their death should so much resemble their life in its changes and vicissitudes, its partings and its meetings, its inquietudes and its persecutions! that mistaken zeal should follow them down to the very tomb as if earthly passion could glimmer, like a funeral lamp, amid the damps of the charnel-house, and "even in their ashes bum their wonted fires!"....
Partings with her father were of too common occurrence to cause her much distress, and she was too well used to strange places to feel lost in these new surroundings, and she had her own nurse and attendant left with her.
"No, please don't. Station partings are fussy and disagreeable. I want to say good-bye to you here in your quiet room, just as I shall say goodbye to Sylvia at home. Ah, Mike, yes, both hands and smiling. May God give us other meetings and talks and companionship and years of love, my best of friends. Good-bye."
"We buried him with his chum by the wayside," adds Trooper Ryan. "Partings of this kind are sad, but they are everyday occurrences in war, and you just have to get used to them." The Dragoons also went to the assistance of a man of the Irish Rifles who, wounded himself, was yet kneeling beside a fallen comrade of the Gloucester Regiment, and gamely firing to keep the enemy off.
"Well," he said, after a moment of quiet, "you are not leaving your best friend after all. Does it comfort your heart very much to remember that, in all your partings and trials, you are never called upon to bid Jesus good-by?" "What a way he has of bringing that subject into every conversation," commented Ester, who was now sure that he was a minister.
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