The Angels Tear故事

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The Angels Tear故事
            AN Unworthy Man who had laughed at the woes of a Woman whom he
            loved, was bewailing his indiscretion in sack-cloth-of-gold and
            ashes-of-roses, when the Angel of Compassion looked down upon him,
            saying:
            "Poor mortal! - how unblest not to know the wickedness of laughing
            at another's misfortune!"
            So saying, he let fall a great tear, which, encountering in its
            descent a current of cold air, was congealed into a hail-stone.
            This struck the Unworthy Man on the head and set him rubbing that
            bruised organ vigorously with one hand while vainly attempting to
            expand an umbrella with the other.
            Thereat the Angel of Compassion did most shamelessly and wickedly
            laugh.