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Gladly would I have exchanged this agony for the pangs of death endured a thousand times over, or for all the sufferings of earth till the final conflagration. I cursed my soul, weeping without a tear. Why were my associates, once, like me, children of wrath, now in heaven, while I was shut out?
It was in my mind that all the good folk would come in their best array, and that so we should sing a great 'Te Deum' for the happiness of all. And indeed there was a voice from the belfry but it was of the great bell alone, as of a knell for the dead. And indeed it seemed that the people came but they came softly and weeping, and they were clad all in black.
'Walter, said Florence, gently, 'I am not quite well, and I have been weeping. I want to speak to you. He sat down opposite to her, looking at her beautiful and innocent face; and his own turned pale, and his lips trembled. 'You said, upon the night when I knew that you were saved and oh! dear Walter, what I felt that night, and what I hoped!
Meredith's parlors as a soul sick of the world's vanities, an urban spirit that hungered for country righteousness. During a walk one day through the gardens she paused under the boughs of a weeping willow and recited, "Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition " She uniformly imparted to Mrs. Meredith the assurance that with her alone she could lay aside all disguises.
As he said this he began to weep so bitterly that he filled us all with compassion and forced Zoraida to look at him, and when she saw him weeping she was so moved that she rose from my feet and ran to throw her arms round him, and pressing her face to his, they both gave way to such an outburst of tears that several of us were constrained to keep them company.
Guy asked, bending down so that his dark hair swept against Maddy's, while his warm breath touched her burning cheeks. "Yes, she's beautiful, oh! so beautiful, and happy, too. I wish I had been like her. I wish " and Maddy burst into a most uncontrollable fit of weeping, her tears dropping like rain upon the inanimate features of Lucy Atherstone.
He sobbed aloud, and had strength enough only to kiss the hands of the two friends. We all advanced, ready to throw ourselves upon the guards at the announced signal; but I saw with grief M. de Cinq-Mars cast his hat from him with an air of disdain. Our movement had been observed, and the Catalonian guard was doubled round the scaffold. I could see no more; but I heard much weeping around me.
It answered, "Where, alas! should I recur; Shall I come back to a body whence the life and blood are flown? Nothing now but bones are left it, rattling in the sepulchre. Lo! my eyes, excess of weeping hath put out their sight, I trow, And a deafness eke is fallen on my ears: I cannot hear."
In fact, it was the 'Partition of Poland, such as took effect forty years after, and has kept the Newspapers weeping ever since. Partition of Poland, MINUS the compact interior held under government, by a King with Saxon troops or otherwise.
And yet there is something so simple and touching in the whole story, from beginning to end, that one can scarcely read it without weeping over her sufferings, and wondering in their hearts at the severity of her punishment.
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