The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13

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down too AT fbey oTiet form Then she sighed ana
turning to Honor. She laid her hand gently hers
help and comfort you She is in His keePng-she viii
icy mouQnssness for stricken grief too deep for any
dismay-ncredulity It could not could not bei
this morning so fui Of lie and soti9tyt Dead on the
very threshold Of HonoTs own coming 70 o be f h9t
that blank sense Of futile helpessnegs that is like
at the deathbed Of stranger for whom she only fsit
sister had ITeI and iett1g her lace faiI In the folds
felt her brain and her mind in one gddy WhiT II was
put quick KIND hand under her arm and held her up.
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bottles Of the clean scrubbed tables OF the bare VIM
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and all tnat-there is no one but me. you see" -
slf oos aq9 at an the Io8E a IL fo beside
her with tender distress is it perhaps the signornas
Is she left alone ths? She stood for instant
white sarcbed csmbrIc Of her cap looked very sweet
viii ask What Is to be L 3TTa9ged she SAID Z
But first would like TO look once more on the face
fingers from the face me bed the gofr Rsndksrehist
and time into the face OF her godmother.
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sal VIZ ry t,-ss and arm norf6 "sSs
never reganed consciousness after she was brought
fered in the least II was comfort TO feel that and
1t was ali arranged somehow. She never quite
who and talked to her-the head Of the nursing
manner and plain masculine face-doctors managers
all these Institutions they talked and consulted and
dream Of bewlderment The funeral could take place
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RAJ Wa kind and beIp74i After what seemed a log
age to The outer door again where Hum5erti6a came
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and di5ma{ ana gIfI pores P1oTeS f @
the slip OF foot. st. Giussepe keep US! We might
The day or two that followed all seemed to Honor
part Of that strange, stunned dream. The mourning
the p6rters wife and Humbertina. their black lace
traed on the air they followed the open hearss
The service al inc sac i et the grave IPees nc nc
gray and ancient pyramid OF Caius Cesus stood sem
There was Sheleys grave. with carpets vtolets,
whose Stone Prooaims his name written in water and
vet whose sleeping place there under the waving
tree branches is pilgrimage shrine for half the
world. Honor stood and heard the words Of the we'll
known beautiful service ring through the sIenced
air under d strange enough sky. The English chap
lain looked at her pityingy as She turned away after
the last words were said, and he came back again
o say something OF comfort She looked young
that chaplain in foreign land often meets,
Some dying away from home and kin and
for the rest or the family 10 Teach hen or stand Dy
their graveside when the last words were read.
Honor. driving back with the porters wife ana
her godmothers, was very silent spite Of the good
natured efforts the two women made to cheer her.
1T Is all over, said the pOrters tat wife, with phios
ophy. THE dead is buried, signOrina think
Of the living who left The excellent sguOra
doubt with the blessed saints in Paradise. and
do nothing for her since 81 is not her
offer for her soul. 4 pity, How
can one secure safety and happiness without? But
nentS Yet. After all, there is plenty 20 enjoy The
signOrna is young and her good life IS all before her
She must take heart and try to forget"
But il not only the shadow OF that sudden
death mat oppressed Honor as they drove through
a pang as II She were guilty OF un<indness that il
had not cast gloom OF heavy anguish on her life.
She was almost ashamed in her secret soul to feel
tnat she could sun take keen and vivid interest IN
the thousand strange sights and sounds they drove
back past the Via Marmoretta, with the towering
shadow OF the old AYentina converts, and Crum
bling above their hill gardens and terraces falling
the baked road. When they passed the round top
of the temple Of Hercules with its OF straight
pillars holding up the sculptUred
Old form ~ tb u remnIs Of Good fortune she crsnsd
Her godmother still but name TO her. That
brief sight her face, with the handkerchief lifted
know her. She could not grieve for her for
friend-for some one whose going LETT cruel gap in
going; but there was no aching emptiness left What
began to come HOnOrs thoughts with insstent
strenuousness the thought OF her own shattersa
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