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The Kyley establishment consisted of a tent some fifty feet long, divided into two compartments with a canvas partition. This screen ran just behind the counter, and through it Mrs. Kyley dived to replenish her jug of rum; but that room at the back represented the sanctity of the Kyley home-life, and to it the diggers never penetrated.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, with solemnity, "I beg to move that father be and hereby is a brick." "Carried nem. con.," said the eldest son. "Loud cheers!" said the more pert of the twins. And Mr. Alpha was enchanted with his home and his home-life.
He himself spoke of the hourly interchange of the smaller acts of kindness with the several members of his family, as having a claim upon his time as strong as those other public occupations of his life which seemed to others so much more serious and important. But the man whose affections are quickened by home-life, does not confine his sympathies within that comparatively narrow sphere.
Why, I have just heard that they will spend a thousand-franc note in a day!" This episode had a fatal influence on the home-life of Wenceslas and Lisbeth. The benefactress flavored the exile's bread with the wormwood of reproof, now that she saw her money in danger, and often believed it to be lost.
He pictured the home-life of the lower classes as nothing short of indecent; there couldn't be anything fine or noble or enduring in the processes of birth, existence and death as related to them. Nature took its course with them, and society, as represented by the class to which he belonged, provided for the litters they cast upon the world.
To-night he came, and with many fine phrases wished us a happy day to-morrow, and most deftly worked upon my mother and Georgette by looking round and speaking with a quaint sort of raillery half pensive, it was of the peace of this home-life of ours; and indeed, he did it so inimitably that I was not sure how much was false and how much true.
Miss Elgin was not long in perceiving that Ruth was a conscientious girl, anxious to learn, and in many little ways she contrived to help and encourage her. As the weather grew colder and winter advanced, the old home-life at the farm seemed very far away, and somehow the home letters were not so full of interest as they had once been.
And after the squire's departure Catherine suddenly realised that the whole atmosphere of their home-life was changed. Robert was giving himself to his people with a more scrupulous energy than ever. Never had she seen him so pitiful, so full of heart for every human creature.
All she had to do was to fit them into their niche in her fabrication. At first, her tale had been chiefly concerned with the internal rift in Mr. Shepherd's home-life, and only in a minor degree with herself.
Amid all the anxiety of the period, amid her distress at the cruel sufferings of her servants in India, in Britain, in Ireland, and her care for their relief, she had had two sources of consolation: the pure and simple bliss of her home-life, and the assistance of two most valued counsellors her husband and her Prime Minister.
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