His wife and son mourned his loss bitterly, for, in spite of his faults, he had always been kind to them.
"The Boolooroo may decide to patch him at once," added Button-Bright, with equal sadness, for he too mourned the sailor's loss.
As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
When his death became known, the whole nation mourned for him. Newspapers from Maine to Louisiana gave touching tributes to his greatness, his purity, and his far-sightedness as a leader of the people.
I thought about the friends he had mourned to leave, the trombone-player, the great forest full of game,--belonging, as Antonia said, to the "nobles,"--from which she and her mother used to steal wood on moonlight nights.