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The fatherliness of the salute and he couldn't have made it anything else would have shamed Kitty's peculiar state of mind out of existence and probably sent back to its eternal sleep that which was strangely reawaking in his lonely heart. "Forgive me, Kitty. That wasn't exactly nice of me, even if I was trying to be funny."
"And now, oh, Aunt Marthe, life is so desperately lonely!" she said at last with a sobbing sigh. Mrs. Everidge leaned over and kissed the trembling lips. "I think sometimes the earthly fatherhood is taken from us, dear child, that we may learn to know the beautiful Fatherliness of God. We can never find true happiness until our restless hearts are folded close in the hush of his love.
As the glow fades and the darkness deepens it seems good to lie down beneath the silent pines that stretch their great arms over you in protecting fatherliness and become an integral part of the peace of the place. Sleep that comes thus is deep and refreshing. Yet always with it there goes a subtle sub-consciousness which makes you alert to what goes on about you.
Never before had he known any human being who radiated such vigor, such big and beneficent fatherliness, yet for all the air of kindliness something, too, that touched in him the sense of awe. Mr. Skale, he felt, was a very unusual man. They went on in the gathering dusk, talking little but easily. Spinrobin felt "taken care of."
Sandys, putting his arm within his daughter's with a pleasant air of fatherliness. "I am afraid industry isn't Jack's strong point? Of course I am anxious about his future you must be used to that sort of thing! but we will defer all this until after dinner, when Mrs. Graves will allow us to have a good talk." "We will see," said Mrs. Graves, rising; "Howard is here for a holiday, you know.
Every day, nearly, saw Paul, or Margaret, or both, at Cross Corners. Faith was often, also, at Lakeside. Old Mr. Rushleigh treated her with a benignant fatherliness, and looked upon her with an evident fondness and pride that threw heavy weight in the scale of his son's chances. And Madam Rushleigh, as she began to be called, since Mrs.
Well, let me help you in, my dear," he added to his wife; "and in you go, Marion; and in you go, your imperial highness" he passed the child awkwardly in to Marion; "and in you go, my daughter," he added, as he handed Lali in, pressing her hand with a brusque fatherliness as he did so. He then got in after them. Richard came to the side of the carriage and bade them all good-bye one by one.
It is not for us to decide whether he, who, by doubling the suggestive and associative power of any thought, fancy, feeling, or natural object, has so far added permanently to the sum of human happiness, is not as sure of a welcome and a well-done from the Infinite Fatherliness as he that has turned an honest penny by printing a catechism; but we are sure that it is a shallow cant which holds up the errors of men of genius as if they were especial warnings, and proofs of how little the rarest gifts avail.
Human love however lovely does not satisfy us. Nothing can, but God!" "The Fatherliness of God," repeated Evadne. "That sounds lovely, but people do not think of him so. God is someone very terrible and far away." "'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Does that sound as if he were far away, little one?
He did so. It was unfortunate that the nervous strain of being the Napoleon of Wall Street had had the effect of increasing to a marked extent the portentousness of Bailey's always portentous manner. Ruth rebelled against it. There was an insufferable suggestion of ripe old age and fatherliness in his attitude which she found irritating in the extreme.
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