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But two persons, strangers both, were present at his deathbed, and it is by a singularly fortunate chance, therefore, that one of these and he not belonging to the class of people who usually leave behind them published records of the events of their lives should have preserved for us an account of the closing scene.
Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the old Whig statesman lacked those gifts or arts which make a man widely popular in a large society of superficial acquaintances. On his deathbed he said with touching pathos, "I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart." The friends needed no such assurance.
'Thank Heaven upon your knees, dear lady, cried the girl, 'that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood, and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger, and riot and drunkenness, and and something worse than all as I have been from my cradle. I may use the word, for the alley and the gutter were mine, as they will be my deathbed.
Ruggles had been overcome by malaria in clearing the creek bottoms the pride of the Peables blood had sustained her in a long, brave fight with circumstances. It was while he lay one night upon his deathbed, mistaking a watching neighbor for his wife, that he started up, saying, "Becky, if I could prove it to you afore I died!" "Out of his head," was the quiet remark of Mrs.
"How long have I? Until morning?" "If you would only not talk and excite yourself " "Hell!" said Billy Grant, we regret to record. "I've got to do all the talking I'm going to do right now. I beg your pardon I didn't intend to swear." "Oh, that's all right!" said the Nurse vaguely. This was like no deathbed she had ever seen, and it was disconcerting. "Shall I read again?" "No, thank you."
Another circumstance had combined with the loss of her protectress and the absence of Don Martin to sadden her heart and dispose her to the cloister. On the deathbed of the old woman, who had been to her as a mother, she had learned a secret hitherto concealed from her tender youth.
"Oh, it was quite a success. I don't mean to be brutal, but it was. He was glad to have me, and showed it.... A deathbed is so terribly egoistic; it can't be helped, but he forgot himself more than ever before. I was touched profoundly, but all the time I saw that he was rising to the occasion without knowing it himself. Not that he was emotional; he was never that.
If we could picture the thoughts of those who stand about a deathbed, what fearful sights should we not see? Money is always the motive-spring of the schemes elaborated, of all the plans that are made and the plots that are woven about it!
After his arrest, the Prince, according to Castagna, attempted various means of suicide, abstaining, at last, many days from food, and dying in consequence, "discoursing, upon his deathbed, gravely and like a man of sense."
You were going to see Miss Williams this afternoon, I thought!" "Yes, and it was she whom I was seeking." He paused, and added slowly, as if merely for the sake of dwelling on the words, "I have found her!" "Miss Williams!" said Fanny, with perplexed looks. "Miss Williams! my Ermine whom I had not seen since the day after her accident, when we parted as on her deathbed!" "That sister!
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