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If you cling to him, and hold him to rash things he has said and done, because he thought me still angry and unforgiving with him, you will ruin all our lives. If he married you, before a month you would read heart-hunger for me in his eyes. He could not love me as he has done, and give me up for a little scene like that!"
There is no heart-hunger on earth so cruel and so terrible as the hunger of father and mother for the complete sympathy and affection of their growing children. This is why the pride of so many parents in the development of their children is mingled with such mute but piercing terror.
The Professor and I are hors de combat; the Counsellor is busy with his cases and his ambitions; the Doctor is probably in love with a microscope, and flirting with pathological specimens; but Number Seven and the Tutor are, I fear, both suffering from that worst of all famines, heart-hunger.
He was quite outside of all their gossip. How could they know that with all his learning for he could read and write in two languages and took the Vermilionville newspaper and with all his books, almost an entire mantel-shelf full he was feeling heart-hunger the same as any ordinary lad or lass unmated?
She saw in it wistfulness and loneliness and felt behind it the persistent heart-hunger of the grown man for the mother in woman, for maternal understanding and solicitude and affection. "I knew right away," she said afterward to Penelope, "that he'd never known a mother's love and that he was homesick for it and it made my heart warm toward him more than ever.
Congregational singing is most popular among those who live far apart to get together and sing is a solace. Loneliness, separation and heart-hunger all drive men into song. These men, many of them far from home, lifted up their voices, and the sounds surged through that church and echoed, surged again and caught even the preacher in their winding waves.
For the first time she forgot the gnawing heart-hunger of homesickness, and was content with her present surroundings; content even with the goats that trotted submisively ahead of Starr. When a soft radiance drifted into the darkness and made it a luminous, thin veil, Helen May gave a little cry and looked back.
He listened and listened, but the winds lay still in heaven, and he was alone with the Silence the dread Silence and the heart-hunger, and the despair. Then he arose from his bed of withered and sere leaves and as one distraught, wandered through the shadows of the misty, weird night.
He recognized in the very gesture with which she stroked the old walnut stock the pathetic heart-hunger of a nature which had been denied the fulfillment of its strength, and which had been bestowing on an inanimate object something that might almost have been the stirring of the mother instinct for a child.
I prayed, often and ardently, but ever came that heart-stilling whisper that there was nothing to pray to. Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Nothing to live for in life no hope beyond the grave. It plunged me into fits of profound melancholy.
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