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The forbidden fruit had allured him, but since it was his for the gathering it seemed sour as indeed it was, and he was not the man to allow himself to be tied to the apron-strings of a child.
But immegiately the thought come "Duty's apron-strings," and I wuz calm agin.
He, as a man, could not stand by with folded arms accepting the abnegation of a woman, to stick tied to his mother's apron-strings in boobified contentment.
"You say 'Yes' as if a fireside and a sweetheart were not particularly to your taste." "Why, look you, Colonel, there are other things which a young fellow might like to enjoy. You have had sixteen years of the world: and I am but a few months away from my mother's apron-strings. When I have seen a campaign or two, or six, as you have: when I have distinguished myself like Mr.
These girls, tied to their mother's apron-strings, pretend to advise a man who has seen the world! But vanity and conceit are strange propensities, that totally blind the eyes of their possessors. I have lived but little at home, but I always thought the young lady a forward imperious miss; yet I never before knew her so much on the stilts.
Since he came to Corny Castle, he had at sundry times expressed to his father his "hope in Heaven, that before they would leave the Black Islands, they should get some good fun, cock-fighting; for it was a poor case for a man that is not used to it, to be tied to a woman's apron-strings, twirling his thumbs all the mornings, for form's sake."
As for the women, it was very plain that the anxieties of the nursery but seldom disturbed the serenity of their souls; and they were never seen going about the valley with half a score of little ones tagging at their apron-strings, or rather at the bread-fruit-leaf they usually wore in the rear.
But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel so conscious.
Even a man who knows nothing but science will be provided for, if he does not think it necessary to hang about his birthplace all his days, which is a most unAmerican weakness. The apron-strings of an American mother are made of India-rubber.
Here sit I, after a dozen battles and some of the worst climates in the world, and by yonder lych gate lies your mother, who didn't move five miles, I suppose, from your aunt's apron-strings, dead in her teens; my golden-haired daughter, whom I never saw." Jackanapes was terribly troubled. "Don't cry, grandfather," he pleaded, his own blue eyes round with tears.
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