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So they clung together for a breathing-space, then Joan woke out of her dream and shuddered away from him, hiding her face in her hands. "Oh, don't," she begged, "please, please don't!" Her words, the very piteousness of her appeal, remembering all her circumstances, hurt Dick. "My dear," he said, "don't you understand; have I made you afraid? I love you; I have always loved you.
Oh! the clinging of the thin hand round her own, the piteousness of suffering of failure! Poor, poor papa! he would not say, even to comfort her, that they would meet again. He had not believed it, and so she must not. No, and she would not! She raised her head fiercely and dried her tears.
His admirers scarcely gave a thought to the piteousness of the adversary; they were absorbed in the scheme and proud to be included in it; and men of heart and sensibility were as hard as their master when they carried out his plans.
"Not with all thy gold!" said Aaron gravely. "Nay, I had not meant that," Seti rejoined with some resentment. "If Egypt's plight can not win mercy from him by its own piteousness, the treasure I bring is not enough." The Hebrew waved his hand as if to dismiss the subject. "Let us not dispute so old a quarrel," he said. "We have a new sorrow, thou and I." "Of Mesu's sending?"
Although not blaming him unjustly, she failed to realize the spiritual piteousness of his plight. If the war has done anything in this country, it has saved the young women of the gentler classes, at any rate, from the abyss of sordid and cynical materialism.
She loves to have me, and it is my one idea of blessedness and comfort and rest." Her voice was agitated almost to tears, and she had dropped her work and clasped her hands together with a piteousness of appeal. "No one will hinder you, Christine," he said. "Mrs.
The blood had left his handsome young olive-hued face, and his eyes were on the signorina, large with amazement, from which they deepened to piteousness of entreaty. "Signorina! you! Can it be true? Do you know? do you mean it?" "What, signor Carlo?" "This; will you venture to do such a thing?" "Oh, will I venture? What can you think of me? It is my own request."
My God! why did I not watch over her better, and save her from such a devil as you?" "No, no, it is not true; it was an accident. Oh, spare me, spare me!" with a piteousness of terror, was all she could say. "Yes; I will spare you, poor wretch, for your husband's sake because she loved him and his burden, God help him! is heavy enough as it is. Go!" flinging her arm rudely from him.
But she asked the spring morning in dumb piteousness, "Oh, why has he come? Why has he come to spoil it all?" He sat down by her side. "This is the luckiest chance I've ever had finding you here," he said. "You've had all my letters, haven't you?" "Yes," she answered, "and I've torn them all up." "Why?" "Because I didn't want them," she flashed on him: "I've destroyed them without reading them."
Then the man with the encrusted heart became interested in the little fellow's persistence in his play under such discomforts; he looked in the child's face, saw there his wife's countenance, though he did not see his own, and fell into thought on the piteousness of childhood particularly of despised and rejected childhood, like this before him.
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