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The picture that the major drew of them in his own region was alluring; it made March homesick; though he knew that he should never go back to his native section. There was the comfort of kind in the major; and he had a vein of philosophy, spare but sweet, which March liked; he liked also the meekness which had come through sorrow upon a spirit which had once been proud.
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I came there at his bidding his marriage to the Indian girl had been unhappy. He was homesick and this fair land of liberty had a rotten core. I struck him down and fled. You will heal and fight the Voice " Mic-co bent and raised the groveling figure. "Peace!" he said, his face very white. "We will heal and quiet the Voice forever. Come!" Gently he led the sick man away.
Far different from this cheerful letter was the one which Tom inclosed in it for his family a wild, homesick outburst, containing so much of truth that it was strange it was ever permitted to leave the city. Of this letter Helen heard by way of Mattie Tubbs, and hope died within her, especially as Tom spoke of their being sent further South as a probable event.
There was a pause here and the children seemed to be somewhat listless. "I'll tell you what I think," remarked Mrs. Meadows to Mr. Rabbit; "these children here are lonesome, and they'll be getting homesick long before the time comes for them to go. Oh, don't tell me!" she cried, when the children would have protested.
He took his red cap from under his arm, sighing, and slouched away from the bluff edge, the coarse homespun which he wore revealing knots and joints in his work-hardened frame. "Ye dog, am I to have my supper to-night?" "Yes, grandfather." But Jean took one more look at the capital of his love, which he had never entered, and for which he was unceasingly homesick.
And if Gainsborough ever listened to Richardson's famous prophecy which inspired Hogarth and Reynolds, to the effect that England would soon produce a great school of art, we do not know it. The young man grew homesick; he was doing nothing in London no career was open to him he returned to Sudbury after an absence of nearly two years.
I like to think that sometimes, in that cold and dismal hour before the dawn, when hope and courage are at their lowest ebb, there appears among the worn and homesick soldiers in the trenches the spirit of the Great Emperor. Cheeringly he claps each man upon the shoulder. "Courage, mon brave," he whispers. "On les aura!"
She remembered how gaily she had once promised, out on the road, to come to Milt's room and cook for him. She thought of it with homesick desire. His room probably wasn't particularly decorative, and she doubted his having an electric range, but it would be fun to fry eggs again, to see him fumbling with the dish-washing, to chatter and plan golden futures, and not worry about the opinions of Mrs.
And then he saw, still looking up, the great white globe that hung above the frozen river, striking blue sparks from the ringing skates. He felt lonely and a trifle homesick. For the first time in his life he was still so young he thought of his childhood and his boyhood as something gone beyond recall.
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