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His wife's heart had pined for a child, but he too had longed for a son, and he had found one in Antinous. His favorite was a boy he had picked up by chance, the son of humble though free parents, but it lay in the Emperor's power to make him great, to confer on him the highest posts of honor in the Empire, and at last to recognize him publicly as his heir.
For her voice had been already heard in many lands of Christendom; and she had pined in the cells of a Catholic Inquisition before she felt the lash and lay in the dungeons of the Puritans. Her mission had extended also to the followers of the Prophet, and from them she had received the courtesy and kindness which all the contending sects of our purer religion united to deny her.
This little foreigner might have pined for her own home, by and by." Then he sighed and shook his head. "Alas! this little stranger will dance before you often, still!" and he touched his eyes; "but I will put you back in your place here, now." This he said, looking at Lillia's picture and with his hand on his heart. "Take me home," said Mae again imploringly.
When at last they left the shop, Miss Betty was standing in her door, and they crossed over to speak to her. "Well, Allan, I am glad to see you at last," she said, coming down the walk to meet them. "You do not appear to have pined away in my absence," he replied, shaking hands. Miss Betty shrugged her shoulders. "I was never much on pining, but my curiosity has been sadly strained."
But the eagle pined and drooped in his cage, and then the loving mother ah, those loving mothers, will their boys ever realize how much they owe them! threw open the doors and gave him freedom, an opportunity to win fame and fortune in the great city of Paris. And now what mattered it that his clothes were poor, that his food was scant, and that it was often bitterly cold in his little garret.
They might have better food also if they paid for it; and, best of all, they could, till their full release came, beguile and occupy the time in work for Christ and His Church. But still they were present in this body of sin and death, and absent from the Lord, and they pined, and, I fear, sinfully murmured sometimes, for the last and the greatest and the best outgate of all.
For how many years had the exile and the outcast pined indignantly for his birthright? Lo! it was won: and with it came the crushed heart and the smitten frame. As he slowly recovered sense and reasoning, these thoughts struck him forcibly. He felt as if he were rightly punished in having disdained, during his earlier youth, the enjoyments within his reach.
Unfortunately one of De Surville's boats was stolen, and in return he not only burnt the nearest village and a number of canoes, but kidnapped the innocent Kinui, who pined away on shipboard and died off the South American coast a few days before De Surville himself was drowned in the surf in trying to land at Callao.
My father had a daughter loved a man, as I perhaps, were I a woman, should love your lordship." "And what is her history?" said Orsino. "A blank, my lord," replied Viola. "She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief."
'Surely eggs take longer hatching than they did, she said to herself; and she pined for a little amusement also.
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