afflicted with heart trouble

broken sentences

veiled hints

⁠half concealing

near

newspaper office

⁠intelligence

⁠railroad

⁠disaster

hastened at forestall

⁠ ⁠paralyzed

⁠wept at once

⁠with sudden

⁠wild abandonment

⁠storm of grief

⁠armchair

physical exhaustion

⁠haunted

⁠seemed

aquiver

⁠peddler

⁠crying

wares

twittering

eaves

piled

⁠cushion

motionless

sob

⁠⁠patches

⁠be spoken

repression

⁠strength

full stare

gaze

⁠fixed away

⁠off yonder

⁠glance

⁠suspension

intelligent thought

fearful

⁠subtle

⁠elusive

⁠creeping

sounds

scents

bosom rose

tumultuously

⁠striving

⁠beat back

will

powerless

bitter

procession

⁠absolutely

⁠bending

⁠fellow-creature

⁠kind intention

blind

persistence

men

⁠women

⁠impose

⁠brief

⁠illumination

⁠unsolved

mystery

⁠count

⁠possession

⁠self-assertion

⁠strongest

⁠impulse

⁠whispering

kneeling

⁠before

⁠keyhole

⁠imploring

admission

beg

⁠ill

⁠heaven's sake

elixir

through

fancy

running riot

shudder

arose at length

⁠quick

⁠prayer

⁠yesterday

⁠importunities

feverish

triumph

⁠unwittingly

clasped

waist

descended

latchkey

⁠travel-stained

composedly

grip-sack

umbrella

amazed

stood

piercing cry

screen from view