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She felt that she stood alone, not merely in the world, but in the universe; and the thought that Oliver slept there in the next room made more poignant this feeling, as though she were solitary and detached in the midst of limitless space. Even if she called him and he came to her, she could not reach him. Even if he stood at her side, the immeasurable distance between them would not lessen.
The huge car with a roar and a jerk seemed to answer Madeline's call, a cry no less poignant because it was silent. Faster, faster, faster! The roar became a whining hum. Then for Madeline sound ceased to be anything she could not hear. The wind was now heavy, imponderable, no longer a swift, plastic thing, but solid, like an on-rushing wall.
Gaston told the story plainly, briefly, as he had told his earlier history. Its concision and simplicity were poignant. From the day he first saw Andree in the justice's room till the hour when she opened Ian Belward's letter, his tale went. Then he paused. "I remember very well," Sir William said, with painful meditation: "a strange girl, with a remarkable face. You pleaded for her father then.
But never had they witnessed so sad a spectacle as that which now offered itself to their view. And then sad memory! which awoke, in all its deep and poignant bitterness, by the side of the first beds they came to it was of this very malady, the Cholera, that their mother had died a painful death.
"We have few such, except in Italy." So Redclyffe left the Hospital, where he had spent many weeks of strange and not unhappy life, and went to accept the invitation of the lord of Braithwaite Hall. It was with a thrill of strange delight, poignant almost to pain, that he found himself driving up to the door of the Hall, and actually passing the threshold of the house.
"Perhaps she knew her child would have it?" gently remarked the Young Doctor. "Ah, that that ! . . . Do you think that possible, m'sieu'? Tell me, do you think that was in her mind to have loved, and been a mother, and given her life for the child, and then the bosom of God. Answer that to me, m'sieu'?" There was intense, poignant inquiry in Jean Jacques' face, and a light seemed to play over it.
While the contest in the amphitheatre had thus commenced, there was one in the loftier benches for whom it had assumed indeed a poignant, a stifling interest. The aged father of Lydon, despite his Christian horror of the spectacle, in his agonized anxiety for his son had not been able to resist being the spectator of his fate.
He talked of the pain and grief of seeing a young heart closed to you which once had been open, and of the poignant disappointment which arises in an elder spirit when its spiritual child its disciple gets beyond its leading. Jock, occupied with his own thoughts, only partially understood.
It was as if her life had reached breaking point and for one moment she would give him as divine gift a little poignant stumble before she regained the sure foothold of her calm courage. It was these precious moments that gave a burning spirit to his image of her. The legend had a soul. But to-day he didn't want to think of her. He wanted to work. The word made him smile a little.
Thus, in Southern Europe, Egypt, Syria, and in many countries of Asia, and some portions of Africa, the wanderer from home might experience dissatisfaction and be ill at ease and wish for old familiar sights and sounds; but in a colony like Tasmania, and in any new country where there were no remains of antiquity, no links with the past, the feeling would be very much more poignant, and in some scenes and moods would be like that sense of desolation which assails us at the thought of the heartless voids and immensities of the universe.
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