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Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman." "You have done much good," I said; for she was noted for her liberal almsgiving. "I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. What of that? It cost me no effort or pang to give.
Herndon, Lincoln's law-partner and most intimate friend, describes him at this period as a "thin, tall, wiry, sinewy, grizzly, raw-boned man, looking 'woe-struck. His countenance was haggard and careworn, exhibiting all the marks of deep and protracted suffering.
I have seen gangs of galley slaves, I have seen the husbands and sons of Rome led away manacled into banishment, I have seen men standing beneath the gallows; but never did I see so woe-struck a group as this. Than have gone back with these nuns to their "paradise," as it is cruelly termed, I felt that I would rather have lain, where the lost nun is, in the Tiber.
The Exhibition would open within two days, and this was to be her contribution. A sad-eyed Cassandra, with pallid, prescient, woe-struck features an over-mastering face, wherein the flickering light of divination struggled feebly with the human horror of the To-Come, whose hideous mysteries were known only to the royal prophetess.
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