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Updated: June 2, 2025
Offered, in the Eternal Mercy, endless precious opportunities of service, he had been too weak, too timorous, too slothful, to lay hold on them. And so, as it seemed to him very justly, to-night confession, prayer, adoration, left him unconsoled.
Alas! the music Nature makes, In thousand songs of gladness While charming all around me, wakes My heavy heart to sadness." "Ah! vain to me the joys that break From spring, voluptuous are; For only one 't is mine to seek The near, yet ever far! I stretch my arms, that shadow-shape In fond embrace to hold; Still doth the shade the clasp escape The heart is unconsoled!"
No wonder an indignant pang transfixed the lonely bosom of the virtuous doctor, solitary and unconsoled as he was. His laborious days knew no such solace. And as he fretted and pondered, no visions of Bessie Christian perplexed his thoughts. He had forgotten that young woman. All his mind was fully occupied chafing at the sacrifice of Nettie.
She paused and they gave each other a searching simultaneous glance. "Who told you it was a tea?" she asked. "Clare Van Degen. I saw her at my mother's." "So you weren't unconsoled after all !" "The nurse didn't get any message. My people were awfully disappointed; and the poor boy has cried his eyes out." "Dear me! What a fuss! But I might have known my message wouldn't be delivered.
Who ever saw a man so old as not secretly and most heartily to wish the veteran years upon years of greater age? And at what great age did ever any old man pass away and leave behind no sudden shock, and no selfish hearts still to yearn after him and grieve on unconsoled?
His resentment was not against the girl, but against life itself that commonest of snares, in which he felt himself caught, seeing clearly the plot of plots and unconsoled by the lucidity of his mind. He swerved and, stepping up to her, sank to the ground by her side. Before she could make a movement or even turn her head his way, he took her in his arms and kissed her lips.
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