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"Had they seen you wakeful and vigilant they had never dared attack us. As it is, I have another life on my conscience and I am an old man and soul-weary of strife and bloodshed, yet this it seems is my destiny!" So saying he sat him down by the fire exceeding dejected, and when I would have comforted him I found no word.
However, not being married, and having a whole week more to be silly in, I was both silly and suspicious. This was partly his fault. He was reserved, naturally and habitually; and as he didn't tell me he was tired and soul-weary, I never thought of that.
'Don't! said Conroy, not realising he had spoken. 'I beg your pardon. The deep voice was measured, even, and low. Conroy knew what made it so. 'I said "don't"! He wouldn't like you to do it! 'No, he would not. She held the tube with its ever-presented tabloid between finger and thumb. 'But aren't you one of the ah "soul-weary" too? 'That's why. Oh, please don't! Not at first.
He was no longer flashily masterful, no longer exotically fascinating. He sagged.... He was just a soul-weary, disappointed man, looking at her out of hollow, burning eyes. He had spent himself magnificently into bankruptcy. His face was the face of a man who must rest, who must find peace.... Yet he was not consciously seeking rest or peace.
Lester was brooding over the history of Egypt, its successive tides or waves of rather weak-bodied people; the thin, narrow strip of soil along either side of the Nile that had given these successive waves of population sustenance; the wonder of heat and tropic life, and this hotel with its modern conveniences and fashionable crowd set down among ancient, soul-weary, almost despairing conditions.
Pacing about his rooms he halts abruptly, ruffles up his hair, and says in the tone in which Laertes announces his intention of avenging his sister: "Shattered, soul-weary, a sick load of misery on the heart . . . and then to sit down and write. And this is called life!
'He's one of the soul-weary too, Nursey. 'I know it. But when one has just given it up a full meal doesn't agree. That's why I've only brought you bread and butter. She went out quietly, and Conroy reddened. 'We're still children, you see, said Miss Henschil. 'But I'm well enough to feel some shame of it. D'you take sugar?
This I can do, however, bear witness to the glowing wings of hope, of longing, of aspiration which his singing violin lent to hearts oppressed by commonplace every-day cares, to the moments of courage, of re-awakened endeavor which he inspired in his fellowmen, to the marvellous magnetism of his playing which seemed for the moment to restore to a soul-weary world its illusions, and to strike off the fetters of despondency which bind mortality to earth.
Oft, Lyonnese, your tears renew To those who died upon this spot; Their valour's fame descends to you, In life, in death, forget them not. Here calm they drew their parting breath, Soul-weary of their country's woes, Here, fearless, in the stroke of death Met honour, victory, repose.
And so, those soul-weary creatures lingered fondly upon, and repeated over and over again, the lines: 'On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the Tree of Life is blooming, There is rest for you.
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