I thwarted one way when I made him give up Damaris . But one ca n't fight against the Almighty . It was decreed that I must lose him -- if not in one way , then in another . He has been taken from me utterly . I shall not even have his grave to tend , Cynthia . '' `` As near to a mad woman as anything you ever saw , with her awful eyes , '' Cynthia told Carl , afterwards . But she did not say so there . Although she was a shallow , commonplace soul , she had her share of womanly sympathy , and her own life had not been free from suffering . It taught her the right thing to do now . She sat down by the stricken creature and put her arms about her , while she gathered the cold hands in her own warm clasp . The tears filled her big , blue eyes and her voice trembled as she said : `` Thyra , I 'm sorry for you . I -- I -- lost a child once -- my little first-born . And Chester was a dear , good lad . '' For a moment Thyra strained her small , tense body away from Cynthia 's embrace . Then she shuddered and cried out . The tears came , and she wept her agony out on the other woman 's breast . As the ill news spread , other Avonlea women kept dropping in all through the day to condole with Thyra . Many of them came in real sympathy , but some out of mere curiosity to see how she took it . Thyra knew this , but she did not resent it , as she would once have done . She listened very quietly to all the halting efforts at consolation , and the little platitudes with which they strove to cover the nakedness of bereavement .
When darkness came Cynthia said she must go home , but would send one XXXXX her girls over for the night .
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