Capitolo 76
the spectators. They is not near enough to know how better to
comforts, still too nearby to turn their backs on the pain that
discovered his/her only comfort in to listen to stories of the last words,
breathed in the ears of nanny, or receiving the tender legacies of
love and craving transmitted through them.
To me, the saddest sight that I have seen in that sad place, was the
show of a grey-hairy father, now sitting after now from his
child, dying from the poison of his/her wound. The old father, strong and
cordial; the young child, over every help although one was able as soon as
believe him/it; for the thin fever, burning away his/her strength,
lined up the text his/her cheeks with color, full his/her eyes with shiny, and
it lent to face and to show up a mournful derision of health, while doing the
comelier of the poor young fellow in death that in the life. Its bed was not in mine
custody; but I was in often and out, and for one day or two, the pair
it was together very, while saying few, but looking a lot. The old man
tried to busy him with book or pen that its presence was able
is not a load; and once when he sat, while writing, to the anxious one
mother in house, undoubtedly I saw the eyes of his/her/their child mend on his
affronts, with a glance of mixed resignation and it repents, as if
striving himself/herself/itself to teach him to happily say the good competitor favored by the long difference.
And again, when his/her child slept, his/her father looked at him/it as he had
him is looked; and although anybody characteristic of his/her grave
expression changed, the raw hand, smoothing the lock of hair
on the pillow, the attitude arched of the grey head, was more
pathetic that the lamentations of loudest. His/her child died; and the
father took house the pale relic of the life that he has given, while offering a
small money to the nanny, as the only visible return was in
his/her power to do her/it; for although very thankful, he was poor. Of
course, her not the takings, but it found a richer compensation in
the serious declaration of the old man: