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Of what service would his child be to him or he to her, if he were doomed to see her pining from day to day with an unpermitted love? It was the dearest wish of his heart to make her happy, as it was his fondest ambition to see her so placed in the world that she might be the happy transmitter of all the honours of the house of Humblethwaite, if she could not transmit all the honours of the name.
I have made it an invariable rule, however, not to stay over night anywhere when I am not invited, so I hope you will consider my feelings and send me an invitation. My eyes fill as I think what it will be to sit beside you and recall dear old New York. It will be the next best thing to being run over by an automobile, won’t it? Yours, with fondest recollections, Aunt Mary laid the letter down.
Would Heaven grant me my fondest wish, it would be to wander with on the banks of the Loire. How sweetly, and even justly, did Felice express the true image of love, when she wished me the golden dream, that I was wandering with my love in the corn-fields of Saumur. We passed through Langeais, a small town, celebrated for its melons, with which it supplies Paris, and all France.
Ambrose looked up at him with eyes full of the fondest affection. "What shall we call him, Pennie?" he said. "I want some name which has to do with a goblin." Pennie considered the subject with her deepest frown. "Would `Goblinet' do?" she said at length; "because, you see, he is so small." "Beautifully," said Ambrose. So the owl was called "Goblinet."
His old mother fell sick, and at the end of a few days he had to give up all hope. Maurice was overcome at the idea of a separation which would henceforth leave him alone on earth, and abandoned himself to boundless grief. He knelt by the bedside of the dying woman, he called her by the fondest names, he pressed her in his arms, as if he could so keep her in life.
At the same time, as a very part of his caution, he must appear entirely nonchalant and candid. "Oh, no tutt' altro," he said, with an assumption of nonchalant airiness and candid promptness. "She 'better bettered' his expectations she surpassed his fondest. She was a thousand times more delightful than he had dreamed though, as you know, he had dreamed a good deal.
"But " began he. "I know what you would say," she interrupted quietly. "That a moment ago I was ready to sacrifice my love, to belie my heart, to crush my fondest hope and that is true, indeed.
And she wonders why. Why was it? Step back and up a bit and get the broader view which the narrow limits of her surroundings, and shall I say, too, though not critically, of her spirit, shut out from her eyes. Here is what she saw: her fondest hope unrealized, long praying unanswered, a constant ferment at home. Here is what she wanted: a son. That is her horizon.
All my powers were centred on a single thought, and the more I turned it over in my head, the less clearly could I distinguish its meaning. What obstacle was this that had so suddenly come between us and the realization of our fondest hopes? If it was merely some ordinary event or even an actual misfortune, such as an accident or the loss of a friend, why that obstinate silence?
Her fondest promises, the card-castles which raised his wonder, cost her nothing; she leads him on, tightens her hold upon him, sometimes coaxing, sometimes scolding him for his want of confidence, till the child leaves his home and follows her blindly to the shores of a vast sea. Smiling, she lures him into a frail skiff, and sends him forth alone and helpless to face the storm.
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