man contemned.
The pallor which I therefore undoubtedly showed upon entering Mr. Pollard’s room was owing to the memory of this incident rather than to any effect which the sight of the dying man had upon me. But before I had been many minutes in the room, Naisten Boca Juniors Pelipaidat I found my pulse thrilling with new excitement and my manhood roused to repel a fresh influence more dangerous, if less repulsive, than the last.
Let me see if I can make it plain to you. Mr. Pollard, whom we have all known as an excellent but somewhat weak man, lay with his face turned towards the room, and his gaze fixed with what I felt to be more than the common anxiety of the dying upon mine. At his side sat his wife, cold, formidable, alert, her hand on his hand, her eye on Ryssland Børn Fodboldtrøjer his eye, and all her icy and implacable will set, as I could plainly see, between Zambia Pelipaidat him and any comfort or encouragement I might endeavor to impart. She even allowed her large and commanding figure to usurp the place usually accorded me on such occasions, and when, after a futile effort or so on my part to break Manchester United Dame Fodboldtrøjer down the barrier of restraint that such a presence necessarily imposed, I arose from my seat at the foot of the bed, and, approaching closer, would have leaned over her husband, she put out her other hand and Bayern imperatively waved me aside, remarking:
“The doctor says he must have air.”
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“The dying frequently have communications to make to which only their pastor’s ear is welcome. Will you excuse me, then, if I request a moment’s solitude with Mr. Pollard, that I may find out if his soul is at rest before I raise my prayers in its behalf?”
But, before I had finished, I saw that any such appeal would be unavailing. If her immovable expression had not given me this assurance, the hopeless closing of PJS Naiset Californian Joanna his weak and Ukraine Pelipaidat fading eyes would have sufficiently betrayed the fact.
“I cannot leave Mr. Pollard,” were the words with which PJS Naiset Harraseeket she tempered her refusal. “If he has any communication to make, let him make it in my presence. I am his wife.” Iceland Dame Fodboldtrøjer And her hand pressed more firmly upon his, and her eyes, which had not stirred from his face even when I addressed her, assumed a dark, if not threatening look, which gradually forced his to open and meet them.
I felt that something must be done.
“Mr. Pollard,” said I, “is there any thing you wish to impart to me before you die? If so, speak up freely and with confidence, for I am here to do a friend and a pastor’s duty by you, even to the point of fulfilling any request you may Japani have to make, so it be only actuated by right feeling and judgment.” And determinedly ignoring her quick move of astonishment,links:
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