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Indeed, when a man feels clearly a lack in his own home-life which nothing but a new house will supply, he is sure to have some decided notions as to what that house shall be. But when you assure me in good set terms that this plan is your beau-ideal, I must ask, also with profound respect, if you know what you are talking about.
All the factors of this life his work, his influence, his recovered health, the lavish beauty of the country, Elsmere enjoyed with all his heart. But at the root of all there lay what gave value and savor to everything else that exquisite home-life of theirs, that tender, triple bond of husband, wife, and child.
Sylvie Hermenstein was richer far than he, she had not only wealth and a great position, but the joys of a natural existence, and of a perfect home-life were not denied to her. Presently, seeing that they were approaching the gates of exit from the Pamphili, he said, "Contessa, will you give me the favour of an hour's conversation with you one afternoon this week?
So this was the end of it all friendship gone with the man before him; shame come to the woman he loved; misery to every one; a home-life shattered; and from the souls of three people peace banished for evermore. He opened out the pages with a slowness that seemed almost apathy, while the man opposite clinched his hands on the table spasmodically.
Before witnessing the will made by such a person, the medical man should satisfy himself that the testator is of a 'sound disposing mind. This he will do by questioning, and his knowledge of the home-life of the patient will either confirm or set aside the idea of influence. A person who is aphasic may be competent to make a will.
The Dutch painters put on canvas the everyday home-life and manners of their people, while the Flemish represented more the religious life of the lower Netherlands. These journeys in Belgium gave Alfonso and Leo enlarged ideas as to the possibilities of portrait painting.
The lonely farm in the hills was again present to her eyes, the old woman, the father now dead, and this man. Bates, stern and opinionated, who had so constantly tutored her. Her mind went back, dwelling on details of that home-life; how Bates had ruled, commanded, praised, and chidden, and she had been indifferent to his rule until an hour of fear had turned indifference into hate.
But first, mark this: I have in the West here some land three hundred and twenty acres. It may yet be to me a home, where I shall begin once more with my Zoe's child with my Zoe of Zoe the home-life I lost down by the Beau Cheval.... Let us go at once." "Yes, at once," answered the Young Doctor.
The circumstances under which the orphan came to them would banish any such tendency in people less kindly than the Cliffords; but their home-life meant so much to them all that they were naturally solicitous concerning one who must, from the intimate relations she would sustain, take from or add much to it.
Her home-life was not a happy one, and unquestionably its austere influences did much to develop in her that colossal egotism and self-sufficiency which marred her character, and has left its injurious impress on her writings.
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