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The girl-wife shifted the sleeping babe in her arms, raised her head, and with all the pathos of a hurt and ignorant child spoke her heart to the woman whom she knew would understand. "'I've fearn this thing for a long time. Las' winter befo' the baby come, I used to set befo' the fire all night long, dreadin', dreadin' I didn't know what this, I guess.
Then put in a quarter of ounce of Mace, so much Ginger, half an ounce of Nutmegs, Sweet-marjoram, Broad-thyme, and Sweet-bryar, of altogether a handful; and boil them well therein; Then set it by, till it be through cold, and then Barrel it up, and keep it till it be ripe. Take of the Roots of Coltsfoot, Fennel and Fearn each four Ounces.
If he, 'poor, unfledged' in this respect, 'who has scarce winged from view o' th' nest, could find a language for his ideas, truth would find a language for some of her secrets. Mr. Fearn was buried in the woods of Indostan. In his leisure from business and from tiger-shooting, he took it into his head to look into his own mind.
Mis' Fearn was over here the other day and said somethin' about tryin' to get a good sewin' woman some one who could make dresses in the house for the children and make over her old ones, and do odds and ends that she can't get the big dressmakers to do. She says she pays three dollars a day but that it's hard to get good ones.
Nicholas was the magnet which drew us to this dear sleepy old town, in the southwest corner of the Belgian littoral; and here, lodged in the historic hostel of the "Nobèle Rose" we spent some golden days. The name of the town is variously pronounced by the people Foorn, Fern, and even Fearn. I doubt if many travelers in the Netherlands ever heard of it.
Ibid. i. 373. Ibid. i. 374. Diversions of Purley, ii. 18. Cf. Mill's statement in Analysis, i. 304, that 'abstract terms are concrete terms with the connotation dropped. Ibid. ii. 9, etc. Ibid. ii. 399. Stephens, ii. 497. Life of Mackintosh, ii. 235-37. Begun for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana in 1818; and published in 1835-37. John Fearn published his Anti-Tooke in 1820.
Ever since he has had nothing but disappointment and vexation, the greatest and most heart-breaking of all others that of not being able to make yourself understood. Mr. Fearn tells me there is a sensible writer in the Monthly Review who sees the thing in its proper light, and says so. But I have heard of no other instance.
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