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Updated: June 12, 2025
A wounded man lay at Grafton's elbow. Once his throat rattled and Grafton turned curiously. "That's the death-rattle," he said to himself, and he had never heard a death-rattle before. The poor fellow's throat rattled again, and again Grafton turned. "I never knew before," he said to himself, "that a dying man's throat rattled but once."
Happily the king came up in the carriage with my sister, and I got in with them. Our carriage stopped. We got out in haste, and went into the cabaret, where in a small room, stretched upon a mattress on the floor, we found Chartres, who was at that moment being bled.... The death-rattle had begun. 'What is that? said the king to me. I replied: 'Mon ami, this is death.
Death was the slower in coming for that, but no convulsion was to be seen, for the cords were strong and the body was utterly incapable of motion. There was no death-rattle, not a quiver of the frame. On the face alone was evidence of the supreme agony, on that terror-distorted mask whence the blood retreated drop by drop, leaving the skin colorless, with a whiteness like that of linen.
"To whom have you confided your child?" she repeated; "to whom? Marie-Anne a word more a single word a name, Marie-Anne!" The unfortunate woman's lips moved, but the death-rattle sounded in her throat; a terrible convulsion shook her form; she slid down from the chair, and fell full length upon the floor.
Yesterday was the last time I ever saw my husband and this youngest child alive. I have lain here all these hours these ages, ye may say listening, listening for any sound up there that " She gave a sharp quick glance at her eldest daughter, then cried out, "Oh, my darling!" and feebly gathered the stiffening form to her sheltering arms. She had recognized the death-rattle.
He opened his eyes and looked once more at his wife. "Sauvez! sauvez!" he shouted, in a voice full of anguish. "Oh! "What! not dead yet?" roared the hussars, and they struck him again. Now he was dying. That loud, awful death-rattle was his last life- struggle.
Poor fellow! he was Triplet, and could not have died without tingeing the death-rattle with some absurdity; but, after all, he was a father driven to despair; a castle-builder, with his work rudely scattered; an artist, brutally crushed and insulted by a greater dunce than himself.
A narrow bandage fastened the dressings of the wound, around which a purplish circle of extravasated blood was gradually increasing in size. A deep sigh broke from her lips. She leaned against one of the columns of the bed, and gazed, through the apertures in her mask, upon the harrowing spectacle before her. A hoarse harsh groan passed like a death-rattle through the comte's clenched teeth.
He was so seriously disturbed, although generally very calm and cool, that the two Chevassats were thoroughly frightened. "An accident!" exclaimed the woman; "that was all that was wanting. But pray, what has happened, dear M. Ravinet?" "How do I know? This very moment, as I was just coming out of my room, I thought I heard the death-rattle of a dying person. It was in the fifth story.
The car rose on one wheel higher and higher; Cornelia was thrown against Fabia, and the two women clung to each other, too terrified and crushed to scream; then on a sudden it righted, and as it did so the soldier who had acted as charioteer reeled, his face bathed in blood, the death-rattle in his throat.
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