This strikes him as the worst thing that has ever happened, and for a moment he sobs uncontrollably.

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His whole frame quivered with the spasms, and he was barely able to tell me between sobs that he couldn't take it.

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He was always crying these days, and it seemed rather showy to Titania, who thought she suffered more deeply in her silence than he did in his sobs.

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