He will not be long with us, and is entitled to nothing but our forbearance and sympathy.

Poor fellow! he has paid a heavy and a fatal penalty for his crime.

Alas, my brother! cut down in the very prime of life, when there was still time enough for reformation and repentance! O, it is too much!" He turned towards the window, and, putting his handkerchief to his eyes, did the pathetic with a very good grace.
"But," said Mrs.Goodwin, "what were the exact circumstances under which the deplorable act of vengeance was committed ?" "Alas! the usual thing, Mrs.Goodwin," replied Harry, attempting to clear his throat; "they met last night between nine and ten o'clock, in a clump of alders, near the well from which the inhabitants of the adjoining hamlet fetch their water.

The outlaw, Shawn-na-Middogue, a rejected lover of the girl's, stung with jealousy and vengeance, surprised them, and stabbed my unfortunate brother, I fear, to death." "And do you think there is no hope ?" she added, with tears in her eyes; "O, if he had only time for repentance!" "Alas! madam, the medical man who has seen him scarcely holds out any hope; but, as you say, if he had time even to repent, there would be much consolation in that." "Well," observed Goodwin, his eyes moist with tears, "after this day, I shall never place confidence in man.

I did imagine that if ever there was an individual whose heart was the source of honor, truth, generosity, disinterestedness, and affection, your brother Charles was that man.