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Oh, am I going to die? I cannot die. I cannot! Don't let me die! Don't; don't." It was like the cry of a frightened child begging a reprieve from punishment, and that piteous "Don't! don't!" rang in Bessie's ears long after the lips which uttered the words were silent in death. During their journeyings together, Daisy had shown the best there was in her and had really seemed trying to reform.
They all looked at me, but I shook my head, and it fell to another to perform this piteous errand, for fearful thoughts were filling my brain, and Orrin did not look altogether guiltless to me as he lay there dead beside the maiden he had declared so fiercely should never be mistress of this house. Was ever such a night of horror known in this town!
On this, in rags, but clean, lay a mere skeleton of a baby with beseeching eyes turned to its mother; and from its lips came piteous little whines like a hunger-tortured kitten. Tears streamed down the woman's cheeks as she crooned and babbled to the child in a language only a tender mother knows, but in her eyes was the look of a soul crucified with helpless suffering.
"I am awake, Bertha," he groaned. "I am awake at last." She regarded him with a piteous, pitying glance. She knew him with a keener, sadder knowledge than he would ever comprehend; but she did not under-estimate the depth of his misery at this one overwhelming moment. He was awake indeed and saw what he had lost. "If you could but have borne with me a little longer," he said.
It is a squalid record of horse-whippings, face-scratchings in short, a rowdy life. Her end was like that of Becky Sharp. In America she delivered lectures which were written for her by a clergyman and which dealt with the art of beauty. She had a temporary success; but soon she became quite poor, and took to piety, professing to be a sort of piteous, penitent Magdalen.
Now it was her boy alone, who wandered along one of the wooden galleries high up above the river torrent, until a plank broke and he fell through with a piteous scream. Now it was her husband, who could go neither forward nor backward, since in front and behind a chasm gaped. But most often it was a man a young Englishman, who pursued a young Indian along that road into the mists.
"Where are you off to now?" said Thornley. "To the Doctor's." "Well, you'll come and see me afterwards?" Bruce promised and then walked to see the Doctor, and his old tutor. To both he opened his piteous tale, and both of them gave him the most generous and liberal assistance; they promised also to procure him such other aid as might lie in their power.
They ain't quite so thick as wild thimbleberries. An' Charlotte ain't got any money herself, an' her father ain't got any to build a house for her. I'd like to know what he's got to say about it?" Mrs. Barnard put up her apron and began to weep helplessly. "Don't, mother," said Charlotte, in an undertone. But her mother began talking in a piteous wailing fashion.
She was leaning back in an obscure corner, with her hands clasped helplessly in her lap before her. She was sitting quite still and his heart sank when he saw her. The lines under her eyes were unmistakable now; her cheeks, too, seemed to have grown hollow. Her first look at him almost made him forget all their differences. There was something piteous in the tremble of her lips.
He is apt, when engaged in conversation, to rest both elbows on a table; it is a great strain on any furniture." Geoffrey looked a little blank. "Were you expecting me to join the party?" he asked; "I thought I should be rather in the way, shouldn't I?" He read his answer in the piteous startled look of the little lady, and hastened on before she could speak.
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