Sentence:  Little Nell <WSD>condoled</WSD> and <WSD>condoled</WSD> without difficulty. He laid words of gentle sympathy before them, and smothered his own misery behind the face of a reporter of the "New York Eclipse". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy ("with" someone "on" something).