Possible Clues:

• Quality of poignancy
• Quality that evokes compassion
• Power to evoke pity
• "Irony takes nothing away from ___": Flaubert
• Quality arousing sorrow has power over Dumas character
• Something evoking pity
• Gently stroke husband, so upset it arouses pity
• Love, in some ways, is a sentimental feeling
• Compassion for Irishman holding on to most of the hose
• Course taken by ordinary seaman leads to pitiful feeling