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Behind him a proud, expectant nation; a great host of sustaining friends; a cherished and happy mother wearing the full, rich honors of her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose whole life lay in his; the little boys not yet emerged from childhood's day of frolic; the fair young daughter; the sturdy sons just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day, and every day rewarding, a father's love and care; and in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demand.
How well I remember the old Isabella vines that clambered on a trellis over the kitchen door at my childhood's home! In this sunny exposure, and in the reflected heat of the building, the clusters were always the sweetest and earliest ripe.
Ever more beautifully this magic circle encompasses the charmed soul, and that which it forms or speaks sounds like a wonderful romance of childhood's beautiful and mysterious divinities a romantic tale, accompanied by the bewitching music of the feelings, and adorned with the fairest flowers of lovely life. By FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
Willie had no selfish schemes; the generous boy suggested nothing for his own gratification; it was for the rest he meant to labor, and in and through them that he looked for his reward. Happy children! What do they want of wealth? What of anything, material or tangible, more than they now possess? They have what is worth more than riches or fame they are full of childhood's faith and hope.
I do not ask if you love Raoul, your childhood's friend, your brother; but I ask if you love the Vicomte de Bragelonne, your affianced husband?" "Good heavens! dear Montalais," said Louise, "how severe your tone is!" "You deserve no indulgence, I am neither more nor less severe than usual. I put a question to you, so answer it."
He was about the only oasis in my childhood's days, though I don't think anybody would think of calling him at all green. He never stopped coming to see me occasionally, and Mr. Carter liked him.
Them is not my name. "'Alas! I says, mournful, 'am I then deceived since childhood's happy hours? "I see the respectable old lady pricking up her ears and getting ready for another season of conversation. Sammy likewise made the same observation, and he fended off the deadly blow. "'Yes, he says, 'I have deceived you. My name is
I suppose that my interest in these discussions and Heaven knows I was animated enough amused and distracted my Father, whose idea of a suitable theme for childhood's ear now seems to me surprising.
Come, let us sit down together, and I will try to tell you why it is. It seems but a few days since I gaily roamed about my childhood's home, hand in hand with brother Jim, or bloody Jim, as he is called." "Bloody Jim your brother! It cannot be so!" interrupted Little Wolf in amazement, "I thought he was a half breed."
He's a better-lookin' man than I expected to see; but it do seem as how his troubles have druv him to drink!" Childhood's impressions are ineffaceable, though they may be for a time set aside. Abraham Lincoln with all his lofty mind, acquiesced in the vulgar belief when he took his son Robert to have the benefit of a "madstone," at a distance from where the boy was dog-bitten.
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