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Updated: May 11, 2025
Johnny found Heinrich Schnitt weeding onions, picking out each weed with minute care and petting the tender young bulbs through their covering of soft earth as he went along. Mama Schnitt, divided into two bulges by an apron-string and wearing a man's broad-brimmed straw hat, stood placidly at the end of the row for company. "Good morning, Mr. Schnitt," said Johnny cheerfully.
A bold, daring, cheerful, merry lad, as ever left his mother's apron-string; very sorry to quit the dotingest of mothers, and the happiest of homes, and the pleasantest of fathers; but mighty proud to come out of the Gynyseum, and to be a man, as I thought it high time I should, in cloth trowsers and jacket, instead of a black velvet coatee.
"You never, surely, signify that any decent maid could set herself to seek a man for an husband, like an angler with fish?" "They must be uncommon queer folks in Hertfordshire if thou art a sample thereof," was the reply. "Why, for sure, I so signified. Thou must have been bred up in a convent, Phyllis, or else tied to thy grandmother's apron-string all thy life.
But he was too big and strong to tie to one's apron-string, and his greatest pleasure was in being with Trevor. I think Trevor's own influence never did any harm.
When he began again he was still thinking of the "apron-string" clause in the senator's telegram. "I can't understand how any man with Western blood in his veins could ever be content to marry and settle down in this over-civilized neck of woods," he remarked, looking down upon the parked automobiles and around at the country-club evidences of the civilization.
"I sort of feel a hankering to give you-all a flutter." Again came the pull on his arm. She was trying to pass the apron-string around him. For the fraction of an instant he was a savage, dominated by the wave of fear and murder that rose up in him. For that infinitesimal space of time he was to all purposes a frightened tiger filled with rage and terror at the apprehension of the trap.
He he's a little hard and cold to me sometimes God forgive me for saying so! but you you've been a young man too." "Yes," John said, rather sadly, "I've been young too." "It's only his age, you know," she said. "He couldn't always be as gentle and loving as when he was a child. A young man would think that so babyish. He wants, as he says, to be independent, and not tied to a woman's apron-string.
"So take a friend's advice, and never go out after sundown, except in company with your wife." There was a change from gravity to mock seriousness in the voice of Ellis as he closed this sentence. Wilkinson compressed his lips and shook his head. "Can't always be tied to my wife's apron-string. Oh, no! haven't come to that."
"But what more can she lack? Beside, she is only a woman." "Women mostly live in and for their children, and your story sounds as though hers cared little enough for her." "Well! they know she is well treated; why should they harry them over her? They be young, and would lead a jolly life, not to be tied for ever to her apron-string." "I would not use my mother thus." "What wouldst?
Indeed, what more could a young full-fledged vicar want than to have a comfortable house under his mother's apron-string? "And why don't you marry?" Bertram had asked his cousin. It was odd that Arthur should not marry, seeing that Adela Gauntlet lived so near him, and that Adela was so very, very beautiful.
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