But this,a wanderer upon the face of the earth,a mark, deeper seared than the mark of Cain, upon the face which she had fondled and kissed within her arms; the soul to which she had given life, accursed of God and man,to measure this, there is no speech nor language.

For another minute she leaned over the slab, making out the fine-seared letters of the name.

Her demand under such circumstances could not fail to prove successful; and it was conceded by Louis himself with the greater alacrity that her presence as a prisoner in the Louvre was irksome and painful to a youth whose conscience was not yet totally seared; and who professed, even while exposing her from hour to hour to the insults of his hirelings, to feel towards her "all the sentiments of a good son.

You are yet young, and though you never can love as you have loved, a second time, your heart is not utterly seared.