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Her face marked with tears, the long braids of her hair over her shoulders, she looked so like a sad and chidden child that the piteousness of her would have moved and melted harder hearts than ours. The Butterfly Man had listened without an interruption. He sat leaning slightly forward, knees crossed, the left arm folded to support the elbow of the right, and his chin in his cupped right hand.
It seemed as though the spirit revellers were pouring fiery jewels from the skies. Ootah stood before that revealed and radiant land of the dead the dead who danced and were happy his hands clenched and upraised above him. "Annadoah! Annadoah!" he sobbed the name again and again, and in his voice throbbed all the piteousness, all the bitterness of his utter heartbreak.
Like a wavering translucent spirit face superimposed upon each of these brutish masks I saw the ideal, the possible face that would have been the actual if mind and soul had lived. It was not till I was aware of these ghostly faces, and of the reproach that could not be gainsaid which was in their eyes, that the full piteousness of the ruin that had been wrought was revealed to me.
She looked at his averted face with a blank piteousness which revealed all her secret. She would not have had him see it for worlds, but it was a relief just for a moment to rest her features in the sad cast which the muscles had grown tired in repressing.
"Am I not proving it?" he answered "Does a man behave like this if he does not love?" "Ah, yes!" And she looked up with a wild piteousness in her sweet eyes "A man will behave like this to any woman!" He loosened his clasp of her, astonished then laughed. "Where did you learn that?" he asked "Who told you men were so volatile?"
I have to dress for dinner, and I want to see Sir Michael; I have not seen him since ten o'clock this morning. Please let it be to-morrow." There was a painful piteousness in her tone. Heaven knows how painful to Robert's heart. Heaven knows what horrible images arose in his mind as he looked down at that fair young face and thought of the task that lay before him.
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."
If the tin church gets too awful, I shall run over to Delphine Carrere for a week to steady my nerves." What could I say? The abomination of desolation lay around about me. I might have prated to her of my needs, wrung her heart with the piteousness of my appeal. Cui bono? I can't whine to women or to men either, for the matter of that.
There was a certain piteousness in the action, a consciousness of youth and strain. Then she saw that the landing and the stairs above were beginning to fill with dark-haired Jewesses, eagerly peering and talking. In another minute or two she would be besieged by them. She called sharply, "Benny!" Instantly Benny appeared from the landing above, elbowing the Jewesses to right and left.
She reeled back as if struck. "Dick doesn't love me?" Then the announcement seemed so grotesque in its improbability that she began to laugh, a trifle hysterically. "Is this true?" "It's quite true," said poor Dick. "You see, my dear," said Austin, "what it costs him what it costs us both to tell you this." "But I don't understand. I don't understand!" she cried, with sudden piteousness.
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