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Her blue eyes were shining with unshed tears, her delicate mouth was quivering with the piteousness of her appeal.
I pushed her gently aside and entered the little room which I had furnished once as her boudoir. On the couch sat Carlotta, white and pinched and poorly clad. At first I was only conscious of her great brown eyes fixed upon me, the dog-like appeal of our first meeting intensified to heart-breaking piteousness. On seeing me she did not rise, but cowered as if I would strike her.
Don't you see now how impossible it is? I wish to Heaven Grace Comerford had not come back." A sense of the piteousness, the pitilessness, of it all came overwhelmingly to Mary O'Gara. She had been learning to love Stella. The fond, ardent little creature had pushed herself into her heart. What was to happen to them all, to Terry, to Stella, to herself?
"Oh, Harry, Harry," she sobbed out, "know you not that is why I cannot bear it longer, because you yourself bear it with no complaint?" Then she sobbed and even wailed with that piteousness of the grief of age exceeding that of infancy, inasmuch as the weight of all past griefs of a lifetime go to swell it, and it is enhanced by memory as well as by the present and an unknown future.
For even then, in obscure nooks and corners, the Scottish ballads were growing up, quite uncontrolled by critical rules, rude in structure and expression, yet, at the same time, full of vitality, retaining in all their keenness the mirth of rustic festivals, and the piteousness of domestic tragedies.
It added to her sense of living in a deep cell of madness, fathoms below the rays of reason, that she had an illusion that in his eyes she saw just that same change from piteousness to loathing. For of course it could not be so. Her quivering lips said gallantly to the banged door: "Well, there is my wurrk. I will forget my petty pairsonal troubles in my wurrk, just as men do!"
He shook his head. 'I cannot come, he said. She stood looking blankly at him for some moments, unable to reach the door because of the portmanteau thrust through with umbrellas and sticks, which stood on the floor between the knees of the passengers. She was helpless. Siegmund was repeating deliriously in his mind: 'Oh go go go when will she go? He could not bear her piteousness.
Even Conrad Winstanley's hard nature was touched by the piteousness of her look and tone. He took the hand gently and raised it to his lips. "I don't mean to be cruel, Pamela," he said. "I only want you to face the truth, and to understand your future position. It is your own money you are squandering, and you have a right to waste it, if it pleases you to do so.
Something touched me in his face his common, unpleasant face. The bluster was gone and there was a piteousness in it. I felt a slight lump in my throat. "Oh no; do not fear," I said. Then he called me an angel and kissed me many times, and that was the worst of all. Oh! When the year is up, will the "monotonous complacency" have set in? The days are flying by.
He paused, and I saw the tears gush from his eyes tears mingled with blood from the wound in his head. Then suddenly he uttered the battle-cry of "Laba! Laba!" and let his weight fall upon the point of the spear. It pierced him through and through. He fell on to his hands and knees. He looked up at us oh, the piteousness of that look! and then rolled sideways from the edge of the rock.
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