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The ardent temperament of Connor, however, could ill brook the pulseless indifference of the old man; with much difficulty, therefore, was he induced to wait a whole week for the issue, though sustained by the mother's assurance, that, in consequence of the impression left on her by their last conversation, she was certain the father, if not urged beyond his wish, would declare himself willing to provide for them.
The almost pulseless lethargy into which she had fallen passed off quickly, and rising up, she pushed back the matted hair from her face, and said, "I know you all think me perverse and unreasonable, and I may be so to some extent; but I will try to do as you wish. I feel as weak in mind and body as a child; and, like a child, I will submit myself to your direction.
The country will watch eagerly for the result of this test, which we trust will be made at the Boston Theatre next week. "'Twas midnight's holy hour, and silence was brooding like a gentle spirit o'er the still and pulseless world." Not a sound was heard, except Robert's dog baying at a sorrel haired young man and a muchmussed girl, who were returning home from a suburban picnic.
His feet made no noise upon the resinous softness of the ground below. In that dead, pulseless silence he could distinctly hear the distant voices of Levi and his companion, sounding loud and resonant in the hollow of the woods. Beyond the woods was a cornfield, and presently he heard the rattling of the harsh leaves as the two plunged into the tasseled jungle.
"Oh, Christ! water, water," he cried, "water, for the love of God, water!" The crew did all they could; but his torments increased the blood began to flow from his mouth his hands became clay cold and pulseless his features sharp, blue, and death like his respiration difficult the choking death rattle succeeded, and in ten minutes he was dead.
"A journey! yes, I will take a journey one which I have longed for these thirty years I will go to Rome! Once again I will lie on the floor of the Sistine, and look up worshipingly to Michael the angel." "And how long shall you stay, brother?" "Stay? Until my heart grows pulseless, and my brain dull. Why should I ever come back to this cold England?
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been for ever closed, feeling how impotent, there, are the wild love, and the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit, for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart, which can only be discharged to the dust.
And the angel folded his bright wings above that scanty pallet, and bent in the silent watches of the night over the boy, and filled his heart with peace, and his dreams with brightness. Six months had rolled their mighty burden of life-records into the pulseless ocean of the past.
A whispered word of encouragement now and then passed from the lips of the hopeful American into the ear of the almost pulseless girl, who lay up against his knee. "We'll do it sure!" he whispered once, ever so softly. "Yes," she scarcely, breathed, but he heard and was thrilled. The rope had dropped from her arms; she had taken the handkerchief from her mouth at his whispered command.
"A peine s'il m'avait regardé!" Célestine answered simply. "Ca, c'est un comble!" observed Trent. "You are a nice young woman for a small tea-party, I don't think. A star upon your birthday burned, whose fierce, serene, red, pulseless planet never yearned in heaven, Célestine. Mademoiselle, I am busy. Bon jour. You certainly are a beauty!" Célestine took this as a scarcely-expected compliment.
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