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RV 319 (Rh) This expressive word ‘heave’ is repeated in the passage which describes her reception of Kent’s letter:

two or three broken ejaculations escape her lips, and she ‘starts’ away ‘to deal with grief alone.’ The same trait reappears with an ineffable beauty in the stifled repetitions with which she attempts to answer her father in the moment of his restoration:

We see this trait for the last time, marked by Shakespeare with a decision clearly intentional, in her inability to answer one syllable to the last words we hear her father speak to her:

She stands and weeps, and goes out with him silent. And we see her alive no more.

But (I am forced to dwell on the point, because I am sure to slur it over is to be false to Shakespeare)