The tears were still falling, but they were tears of relief.

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She would set off whistling then, joyously abandoning the screams and tears of her family falling apart.

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"There was a huge state funeral and there were many pieces of journalism reporting the event in the national press and many of them talk about 'tears gushing from every eye' and the 'nation's tears', 'Britannia's tears' at the falling of her hero and poems about Nelson and so on, " says Dr Dixon.

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Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother's so easily wiped away.

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