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Dogs were also forbidden, except one very intelligent Airedale, that belonged to the whole family and to no one in particular. But the boys must find vent for their passion in some way, and rabbits were allowed them. At the present moment Jack owned five, Andrew four. In trembling triumph, Andrew brought his new friend to see his darlings.
"And when father saw him sitting on a heap of bricks among his things, he says it put him in mind of Marius on the ruins of Carthage." "So now we can fetch them all away." Emily then departed, after stipulating that the two little ones, her favourites, should come also. "Darlings!" she exclaimed, when she saw their stout little legs so actively running to ask Miss Christie's leave.
'I dote on such darlings. I always see so much in their countenances. There is the germ of so much to be drawn out hereafter in those deep looks of thought. 'My baby often looks very intent. 'Intent on thoughts beyond our power to trace! said Miss Marstone. 'Ah! I have often thought that we cannot fathom what may be passing in a baby's mind, said Emma.
Entire groves of young trees, from ten to forty feet high, are thus buried every winter like slender grasses. But, like the violets and daisies which the heaviest snows crush not, they are safe. It is as though this were only Nature's method of putting her darlings to sleep instead of leaving them exposed to the biting storms of winter. Thus warmly wrapped they await the summer resurrection.
And I went a bit farther and I saw a little white coffin in a window. "How about that?" said I. "If the darlings were gone to their long home you might talk about trouble!" And a few moments later I ran across an old man without any legs, peddling papers. And then I said: "Do you call your life a grind, madam, with two legs to walk upon, and a sufficient income to admit of an occasional fling?
As he prefigured these new beings, the son was to exist chiefly for purposes of distinction and the dignity of heirship, and the paternal relations with him would be always somewhat formal, and, though affectionate, unexpansive. But the little girls they would put their arms round their father's neck, and walk out with him to see the pigs and the dogs, and be the darlings of his heart.
At last the old servant she had been in the family as long as the lamp introduced a young man, a perfect stranger, who stopped suddenly, spellbound, at sight of the charming picture presented by the four darlings grouped about the table. He entered with an abashed, somewhat awkward air. However, he set forth very clearly the purpose of his call.
"Is it true, as a good woman tells me, that the innocent darlings had each an arm round the other's neck?" "Ay." "And little coronets of flowers, to match their hair?" "Ay." "And the little boy had played the man, and taken off his tippet to put round the little lady?" "Ay!" with a burst of enthusiasm from the assembled rustics.
There at those tables in the dust and din of the bustling piers, in the soot and heat of the railway station, in the jam and turmoil at the ferry houses, in the fog and chill of the seaward camps, in the fever-haunted wards of crowded field hospitals, from dawn till dark, from dark till dawn, toiled week after week devoted women in every grade of life, the wife of the millionaire, the daughter of the day laborer, the gently born, the delicately reared, the social pets and darlings, the humble seamstress, no one too high to stoop to aid the departing soldier, none too poor or low to deny him cheer and sympathy.
It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off. Mrs. Strickland's voice broke again. "And what is to happen to them, poor darlings? How are we going to live?"
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