This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... was a sad moment, for the sight of a deep sorrow evokes the tristful echoes that the daily course of life suppresses within us, the sentiment of all that menaces us, the intuition or the terror of sufferings that are lying in wait for us. I had never seen a more sincere, more mortally painful expression of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... was a sad moment, for the sight of a deep sorrow evokes the tristful echoes that the daily course of life suppresses within us, the sentiment of all that menaces us, the intuition or the terror of sufferings that are lying in wait for us. I had never seen a more sincere, more mortally painful expression of grief. In these few days she had grown years older. Wrinkles had suddenly furrowed her fine brow whose purity no sorrow had previously been able to mar; her complexion had become clouded with a deep, unhealthy tone; her crystalline voice, that had been so full of charm, had become broken. She was another woman altogether. And yet this tragically sorrowful mask was not unfamiliar to me. I had seen it before, in other circumstances. When? I tried to remember, and all at once I recalled that it was a few months before, at the time of the false rumor of Kermoysan's death. Only then she controlled herself, whereas now, there being no reason why she should hide her grief as a mother, she gave free vent to it, imploring with her eyes a sympathy that she knew she would everywhere receive. She was stricken to the heart, but it was with a wound that she could show, that would not be envenomed by calumny. This sudden discovery, corroborating at such a moment so many other signs previously observed, troubled me to such a degree that I could hardly stammer the few conventional phrases I had come to deliver myself of. How feebly they expressed my compassion! How they rendered in insignificant words a sentiment so strong that it was choking me! I yearned to tell her that I had solved all the mystery of her soul; that I understood her two loves, to one of which it was not permitted to console the other that was bleeding; that I pitied her, pitied her to the...
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