He had vision enough to realize that in Sisily's death Charles had lost all.

His own hardness of outlook melted at that thought.

It crumbled his worldliness to ashes, flooded his heart with vain regret, found utterance at last in the whispered words-- "How am I to tell my son ?" His eyes, dwelling on the door of the inner room, revealed the direction of his thought.
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