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He had still much of rude English boyhood about him, and he laughed roughly. 'A fine fellow, to weep at a word! Hie thee back to feed my Lady's lap-dog, 'tis all thou art fit for. 'There spoke English gratitude, said Aime, with a toss of the head and flash of the eye. Philip despised him the more for casting up his obligations, but had no retort to make.
The memories of his loveless, hard-worked childhood were bitter to him, and he knew nothing of the joy of a boyhood spent in the hills and woods. "Life is the same everywhere, Mr. Cameron. I dare say there is as much sin and as much worry and care among the mountains as on the Glasgow pavements." "You may 'daur say' it, James, but that winna mak it true.
Then an old man rose and, in a quavering voice, said the matter was quite clear; that there evidently was nothing to do but to sell, and that he would agree with the others in the necessity; but as the church had been his church home from boyhood, so he quavered and quivered on, he begged that they would excuse him from actually taking part in disposing of it; and in a deep silence he went haltingly from the room.
Carl had never made b'lieve fairies or princes; rather, he was in the secret world of boyhood a soldier, a trapper, or a swing-brakeman on the M. & D. R.R. But he was bespelled by the suggestion of grandeur in the iron fence and gracious trees and dark carriage-shed of the House with Shutters.
Corruption superstition murder lies black wrong black selfishness all growing rank beneath the shadow of the British rule how long will God let that last?" He was pacing up and down like a caged lion, not looking at Rosemary, not speaking to her speaking to himself, and giving rein to all the rankling rage at wrong that wrong had nurtured in him since his boyhood.
Elizabeth herself was never moved by sentiment, and final vengeance on Spain had to wait for the Armada, with which these lectures, like the History, conclude. The consequences he left to others who had more years before them than he himself. He loved to dwell on the glories of seamen, especially Devonshire seamen, whose descendants he had known from his boyhood.
There'll be others there for you to talk with who'll be glad to have you there, and " "Go to, go to! I know the ways of a man's heart as well as the next." "I'll warrant you do, father!" and Richard bounded away, taking the path he had so often trod in his boyhood. Larry stood and looked after him a moment. He was pleased to hear how readily the word, father, fell from the young man's lips.
And, stopping before the window, he thought of his own boyhood of the first wild passion of his young heart of the little hand he held of the soft darkness of eyes whose light mingled with his own again the palm-trees the rushing river when, at the very window upon which he was unconsciously gazing, one afternoon a face appeared, with a black silk handkerchief twisted about the head, and looking down into the court between the houses.
On my sad, lonely life brief indeed, though ill health seemed to have doubled and trebled my sixteen years into a mournful maturity this lad's face had come like a flash of sunshine; a reflection of the merry boyhood, the youth and strength that never were, never could be, mine. To let it go from me was like going back into the dark.
He wanted to revert to the strictest Toryism. But the desire did not last long enough to carry him into action. During his childhood and his boyhood he had wanted a sort of savagedom. The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey.
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