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After dinner, I will tell thee." Then he took her hand, and the three in one went together to the round table, set so pleasantly near to the comfortable fireside. Standing there, hand-clasped, the master said those few words of adoration and gratitude that turned the white-spread board into a household altar.
I have been ever fond of my fireside and study ever fond of calling up some absent friend, and of living over, in idea, past times of sentimental pleasure. Fancy steps in to my aid, colours the picture, and makes it delightful indeed. You are in the very frame of mind I wish you to be; may it continue. I cannot tell you what has become of Mrs. Prevost's affairs.
Once and not very long since he had persuaded himself that there had been a chance for him to have such a home, and live in it not alone. That chance had gone had never really existed, he knew now. For sooner or later he must have awakened from the pleasant dreams of self-persuasion to the reality of his relentless responsibility. No, there had never been such a chance; and he thanked God that he had learned before it was too late that for him there could be no earthly paradise, no fireside
His name ought never to be omitted from the literary annals of England; nor that of his wife either, for she has always made her delightful fireside warm and comforting to her husband's friends. Many and many a happy time Bennoch, Hawthorne, and myself have had together on British soil.
But May, or her mirthful spirit, dwelt all the year round at Merry Mount, sporting with the Summer months, and revelling with Autumn, and basking in the glow of Winter's fireside. Through a world of toil and care she flitted with a dreamlike smile, and came hither to find a home among the lightsome hearts of Merry Mount. Never had the Maypole been so gayly decked as at sunset on midsummer eve.
Of all this family lore I knew but little and vaguely; only what is to be gathered from the fireside talk of old retainers in the nursery. I am sure my father loved me, and I know I loved him. With the sure instinct of childhood I apprehended his tenderness, although it was never expressed in common ways. But my father was an oddity.
In ev'ry home, at ev'ry cottage door, By ev'ry fireside, when our toil is o'er, These songs are round us near our cradles sigh, And to the grave attend us when we die. Oh, think, cold critics! 'twill be late and long, Ere time shall sweep away this flood of song! There are who bid this music sound no more, And you can hear them, nor defend deplore!
It shall know it, though that I'm determined. "How any man can leave his own happy fireside to go and sit, and smoke, and drink, and talk with people who wouldn't one of 'em lift a finger to save him from hanging how any man can leave his wife and a good wife, too, though I say it for a parcel of pot-companions oh, it's disgraceful, Mr. Caudle; it's unfeeling.
and we children joined in the chorus: Then we'll gather round the fire And we'll pile the wood on higher, Let the song and jest go round; What care we for the storm, When the fireside is so warm, And pleasure here is found? Never before did this song mean so much to me as at this moment when the winds were actually howling outdoors, and Uncle Frank was in very truth piling the logs higher.
Only, as a rule, our celestial visitors leave the talking to us as we sit by the fireside: and they say never a word. Rainette never dreamed of taking exception to it: silence gives consent. Besides, she had so much to tell them that she hardly gave them time to reply: she used to answer for them.
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