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Then the little boys, falling on their naked knees, blubber upwards piteously; but the large boys know what is good for them, and will not be entreated. So they cast them down, one after other into the splash of the water, and watch them go to the bottom first, and then come up and fight for it, with a blowing and a bubbling.
Dorothy lost her voice. The tears came out of her eyes. As she did not speak I began again, trying to say for her what she did not say for herself. "There's Zoe," I said. And then Dorothy quite lost control of herself. She wept piteously. And then she grew calmer. She had faced the reluctant fact when I spoke Zoe's name. We had stumbled up and over that roughness in the road.
The first lightning rent the sky and the storm came up in haste, bursting above our heads, and as the thunder roared closer and closer after the flash I was more and more frightened. Moreover the sick child wept piteously and waxed restless with fever and pain.
Rinaldo, who could scarcely articulate for shivering, told as briefly as he could, who he was, and how and why he came to be there; which done, he began piteously to, beseech her not, if she could avoid it, to leave him there all night to perish of cold. The maid went back to her mistress full of pity for Rinaldo, and told her all she had seen and heard.
A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field, where a thin carpet of moss, scarcely covering the ragged beds of pudding-stone, tantalized and balked his hunger; and sometimes he would lean his head over the fence, look piteously at the passer-by, and seem to petition deliverance from this land of famine.
"One of those knaves has hurt my mare," and he pointed to blood that ran from a great gash in the beast's foreleg, which it held up piteously. "Take mine," said Jeffrey; "I'll dodge them afoot." "Never, man!
I feel always like a sort of dry lamp-wick when she has left me. Never mind! I have something else now to talk about. I want you to make yourself useful in a harder path." "Not another Charity Board, aunt," said Esther rather piteously. "Worse!" said Mrs. Murray. "A charity girl! Thirty years ago I had a dear friend who was also a friend of your poor mother's. Her name was Catherine Cortright.
"Not complaining, but a direful little effort at content, showing the more piteously, because involuntarily, what a mistake I had made." "No, no mistake. Indeed, Miles, it was not. Nothing else would have cured me of the dreadful uncharitableness which was the chief cause of my unhappiness, and if I had not been so forlorn, I should never have seen how good and patient your mother was with me.
And the other children, one after another, agreed that it was too much to hope that they might find their way back over the devious paths by which they had come. It was then that they were all aware that one of their number had remained apart and was now regarding them almost piteously. It was Aladdin! Aladdin, holding his accursed lamp to his bosom, and gazing at them with beseeching eyes.
"Aye!" he said, lurching forward, "let's find Saunders coom along let's find Saunders." Mary Anne guided him through the door, Bessie standing aside. As the widow passed, she touched Bessie piteously. "Oh, Bessie, yer didn't do it say yer didn't!" Bessie looked at her dry-eyed and contemptuous. Something in the speaker's emotion seemed to madden her.
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