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Brother! you and I, away from Jesus Christ, have to face the certainties of ignorance, of sin, of sorrow ignorance unenlightened, sin unconquered, sorrow uncomforted. And then comes the other tragic, and yet most picturesque emblem in the representation here: 'They sit in darkness. Yes! what can they do, poor creatures? They know not where to go.
He would invariably smile and turn the conversation; but there was a look in his eyes at such times that I hated to see it always made me think of Mrs. Browning's poem, 'The Mask': "Behind no prison-grate, she said, Which slurs the sunshine half a mile, Live captives so uncomforted As souls behind a smile."
It was but a momentary fierceness; the next instant he clasped his hands over his face, and wept in a violent convulsion of grief and shame. Little Elsie clasped her arms about him, kissing his brow and chin, which were all that her lips could touch, under his clasped hands; but Ned turned away uncomforted, and was blindly making his way towards the door.
Their labour is frequently demanded where refusal is impossible, and obedience attended with no remuneration. They themselves are hurried away, if young, to fill up the miserable quotas of the conscription; torn from the happiest scenes of their youth, and banished from every object of their affection. If old, they are doomed to pass their solitary years uncomforted, and unsupported.
She might be daunted, but she could not remain long uncomforted while her love and trust were still unchanged. Ah! there was a vast amount of magic in the simple, silent pressure of the arm within that shabby coat-sleeve.
He cherished in secret an admiration for the young men of Elgin, with their unappeasable energy and their indomitable optimism, but he could not translate it in any language of sympathy and but for Advena his soul would have gone uncomforted and alone. Advena, as we know, was his companion. Seeing herself just that, constantly content to be just that, she walked beside him closer than he knew.
That stabbed him to the heart.... Not a line, O God! not a written line, in answer to that letter in which he told her of the acquittal, and of his father's death, and of his own anguish at having to answer the stern call of filial duty, and leave dear Love uncomforted by even one kiss after all these weeks of famine, and hurry away to lay that grand grey head in the vault that covered so many Saxhams.
Oh, I am ashamed, and so sorry, Bea dear." "Well well, I think it's too too bad," sobbed Bea, uncomforted. "She talked so mean, and and she'll tell everybody that that I'm no housekeeper, and then then, mama "
She did not gain much good from the sermon that day. Heedless of some curious perhaps pitying eyes that were turned towards her, she leaned her head on her hand and thought her own dreary thoughts; and when the services were over, she rose and went away with the rest, although uncomforted. The day passed slowly enough.
Wounded and dying and dead lay out together uncomforted, uncared for throughout the long hours of Saturday until Sunday morning, when a truce was agreed to. Still the hill was not won, and was to be held by the enemy until the 27th, the nineteenth anniversary of Majuba, a day no longer to be held in shameful memory.
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