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Hardly has this strange imagining in the bosom of our kitchen passed away when Mame adds, with her eyes on mine, "My lad, mind you, never look higher than yourself. You are already something of a home-bird; you have already serious and elderly habits. That's good. Never try to be different from others." "No danger of that, Mame." No, there is no danger of that. I should like to remain as I am.
Well! we little thought how things would turn out. 'And that after all Amy would be the home-bird, said Charles. 'I don't feel as if it was wrong to rejoice in having her in this sweet, shady brightness, as she is now. 'Do you know whether she means to go to church to-morrow? I don't like to ask. 'Nor I. 'I know she does, said Charlotte. 'She told me so.
Instead of which they felt rebuffed and unloved, they were turned in on themselves, until such time as some other love should warm their chilled hearts and expand their natures, and a stranger, maybe, should mean more to them than a parent. Of all the little brood Angela was the most affectionate, the most clinging little home-bird.
She loved to be out and about, and her two hours of lessons with her mamma in the afternoon were a grievous penance to her. Ethel wanted three months of fourteen, and looked under twelve. She was quite the home-bird of the family, and liked nothing better than taking her work and sitting by the hour, quietly talking to her mother.
My two sons are gone over the nest, whatever; but Ann is stopping with me, She is the home-bird." Gwenda thought she had never enjoyed such a tea. The tea cakes so light, the brown bread so delicious; and Ann, with her quiet manners, made a perfect hostess; so that, when she rose to go, she was as reluctant to leave the old farmhouse as her entertainers were to lose her.
You will think me a hard practical man when I own to you, that all I expect from Leonard's remaining a home-bird is that, with such a mother, it will do him no harm. At any rate, remember my offer is the same for a year two years hence, as now. What does she look forward to making him into, finally?" "I don't know. The wonder comes into my mind sometimes; but never into hers, I think.
In form, dress, deportment, disposition, and in voice and taste for vocal music, the American robin surpasses the English most decidedly. In this our grave forefathers did more than justice to the home-bird they missed on Plymouth Rock.
'We think that this one, laying his hand on Alda's arm, 'will value these advantages, and is not quite such a home-bird as her sister. I hope you will find a grateful good child in Alda Mary, and a kind sister to Mary Alda.
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