Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..

From the depths of his memory arose a tingling sadness, fragile and pure like morning dew, tinged with a rosy hue.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

He remembered how the night dew had fallen upon him,—how the dark forest had whispered to him,—how the stars had gleamed upon him,—a simple and loving man, watching his fire in the years gone by, and ever musing as it burned. He remembered with what tenderness, with what love and sympathy for mankind, and what pity for human guilt and woe, he had first begun to contemplate those ideas which afterwards became the inspiration of his life; with what reverence he had then looked into the heart of man, viewing it as a temple originally divine, and, however desecrated, still to be held as sacred to a brother; with what awful fear he had deprecated the success of his pursuit, and prayed that the Unpardonable Sin might never be revealed to him. Then ensued the base intellectual development which, in its progress, disturbed the counterpoise between his mind and heart.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.