 I have been to her room: there was no voice in it — no stirring; the pressure of the coffin was visible on the bed, but it had been removed elsewhere; all was neat as she loved it, but all was calm — calm as death. I remembered the last sight of her;...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Seite 81840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 422 Seiten
...experience those paroxysms of grief which others do on the same occasion. I can exert myself, and speak even cheerfully with the poor girls. But alone, or if any...bed, and tried to turn her eyes after me, and said, M'ith a sort of smile, ' You all have such melancholy faces.' These were the last words I ever heard... | |
 | 1838 - 588 Seiten
...elsewhere ; all was neat, as nhe loved it, but all was calm — calm as death. I remembered the last siprht of her; she raised herself in bed, and tried to turn...with a sort of smile, ' You all have such melancholy fnces !' Thesr were the last words 1 ever board her utter, mid I hurried away, for she did not seem... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 328 Seiten
...death of his wife, his thirty years' companion. " I have been to her room," he wrote in May, 1826; " there was no voice in it — no stirring ; the pressure...eyes after me, and said with a sort of smile, ' You have all such melancholy faces.' These were the last words I ever heard her utter, and I hurried away,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - 444 Seiten
...occasion. I can exert myself and speak even cheerfully with the poor girls. But alone, or if anything touches me — the choking sensation. I have been...sort of smile, " You all have such melancholy faces." They were the last words I ever heard her utter, and I hurried away, for she did not seem quite conscious... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - 450 Seiten
...the bed, but it had been removed elsewhere; all was neat as she loved it, but all was calm — cahu as death. I remembered the last sight of her ; she...sort of smile, " You all have such melancholy faces." They were the last words I ever heard her utter, and I hurried away, for she did not seem quite conscious... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1891 - 640 Seiten
...but all was calm — calm as death. I remembered the last sight of her ; she raised herself in hed, and tried to turn her eyes after me, and said, with...sort of smile, " You all have such melancholy faces." They were the last words I ever heard her utter, and I hurried away, for she did not seem quite conscious... | |
 | William Lamb Sime, Wm. Lamb Sime - 1896 - 104 Seiten
...ears long after she died: "'Scott, do not go.' It half frightens me—poor, poor Charlotte. I remember the last sight of her; she raised herself in bed and...sort of smile, ' You all have such melancholy faces'" " FAITHFUL AND TRUE," so wrote her ain man. WALTER SCOTT LARGE, irregular head, of two storeys, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1927 - 968 Seiten
...calm as death. I remembered the last sight of her; she raised herself in bed, and tried to turn lier eyes after me, and said, with a sort of smile, " You all have such melancholy faces." They were the last words I ever heard her utter, and I hurried away, for she did not seem quite conscious... | |
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