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Updated: May 24, 2025
Let me at least look on the unobstructed sky, as I sink lower and lower to my eternal rest! Still there? Still there? Still bending above me, smiling and weeping, sweet April face? Oh, were they truly thy lips that lay on mine, then, that stamped them with life's impress, that woke me? Are they truly thy fingers that pressed my throbless temples? These arms that are wound about me, are thine?
'Tis all but life art could not save Thy graces, Emma, from the grave; Thy cheek is pale, thy smile is past, Thy love-lit eyes have looked their last, Mouldering beneath the coffin's lid, All we adored of thee is hid; Thy heart, where goodness loved to dwell, Is throbless in the narrow cell: Thy gentle voice shall charm no more, Its last, last joyful note is o'er.
The silken curls parted from the marble brow the once bright eyes closed once red lips pale little hands that have ofttimes been clasped as the lips repeated "Our Father," now meekly folded over the throbless heart, tell us that Death, cruel, relentless Death, has been there. Surely, the soul that once beamed from those closed eyes is happy!
While Quinnox was making this statement the accused stood with bowed head and throbless heart. He did not see the captain's hand tremble as he passed the documents to Dangloss, nor did he hear the unhappy sigh that came from the latter's lips. Anguish, fiery and impulsive, was not to be subdued. "Is there no warrant for my arrest?" he demanded. "There is not.
At this point he began to say "dammit," and with some sense of appreciation, too. Presently his eye caught sight of a thin stream of smoke, rather black than blue, arising from the little chimney at the rear of the cabin. His eyes flew very wide open; his heart experienced a sudden throbless moment; his mind leaped backward to the unexplained smoke mystery of the day before.
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