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And true it is, one knows when one goes away, but it is hard to know when one will come back. That is why I wanted to say good-by to you, and make peace, so as not to go away with too great a load on my heart." All Reine's coldness melted away. This young fellow, who was leaving his country on her account, was the companion of her infancy, more than that, her nearest relative.
But as he walked along the road he knew, or thought he was sure, that the thoughts of one of the party were going along with him into his future, and the peaceful scene, the murmuring river, the cat-birds and the blackbirds calling in the meadow, and the spirit of self-confident youth in him said not good-by, but au revoir.
"Go with Mrs. Todd, dearie," Martha directed as she had always done. "I am going home with Tim and the trunks, and I'll be there before you." "All right," Janet agreed, smiling. It did seem good to hear her old nurse's orders again. "Come on, Phyl," she called. Phyllis nodded good-by to the Blake girls and joined her.
Near him sat a thin, white-faced woman, bent and twisted with rheumatism. Mrs. Carew stepped into the room and, as if to steady herself, paused a minute with her back to the wall. Pollyanna hurried forward with a low cry just as Jerry, with an apologetic "I gotta go now; good-by!" dashed through the door. "Oh, Jamie, I'm so glad I've found you," cried Pollyanna.
I wish you prosperity and happiness from the bottom of my heart; and remain, your grateful servant, For the future I must, for safety's sake, live under some other name. I should like to go back to my name when I was a happy girl at home. Good-by again, sir; and thank you again." So the letter concluded. I read it in the temper of a thoroughly disappointed and thoroughly unreasonable man.
"She left the President with feelings of the deepest affection and gratitude, having every assurance that her wishes would be complied with. As she left, he bade her good-by, calling her his 'little heroine. From Washington she went to Baltimore, learning that some prisoners who had been exchanged were to be landed there.
When I departed from Harvard for Stanford University last December, almost the last good-by I got was that of my old Californian friend B: "I hope they'll give you a touch of earthquake while you 're there, so that you may also become acquainted with that Californian institution."
She went away repeating once more that Josephina was killing herself, that it was perfect folly for her to nurse the baby in her delicate condition, regretting that she did not follow the example of her mother who had always intrusted her children to nurses. Josephina cried bitterly when her mother went, but Renovales said "good-by" with ill-concealed joy. Bon voyage!
"Well, I've said it all, I guess. You understand what you've got to do? Good-by and good luck. You're the keeper of the light now." "Good luck," said Fortin, "I am going to keep it." The same day he shut up the red house on the beach and moved to the white house on the island with Marie-Anne, his wife, and the three girls, Alma, aged seventeen, Azilda, aged fifteen, and Nataline, aged thirteen.
And so John Tyndall bade the ideal life good-by, and went out into the stress, strife and struggle, resolved to spend his two thousand dollars in bettering his education, and then to start life anew. Robert Owen had been over to America and had met Emerson, and very naturally caught it.
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