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But Clements had already owned it was a mere "obiter dictum," nothing but a joke of prudent marriage against extravagant bachelorship. Ah, what a bitter joke was that! On the verge of that yes or no, to be uttered by his frank young friend, trembled reluctant honour; home-affections were imploring in that careless tone of voice; hunger put that off-hand question.
From the few short words with which it began "Gilbert Ainslee was a poor man, and he had been a poor man all the days of his life" to the happy waking of his little daughter Margaret out of her fever-sleep with which it ended, it was one sweet picture of lowly life and honorable poverty irradiated with sacred home-affections, and cheerful in its rustic homeliness as the blossoms and wild birds of the moorland and the magic touch of Christopher North could make it.
"Such tenderness touches us particularly when found, as in Körner, in union with manly and vigorous qualities perhaps, because it is a rare combination," said Mrs. Dudley. "Is it rare?" I asked doubtfully. "The results of my own observation have led me to believe that it is precisely in manly, vigorous, independent minds that we see the fullest development of our simple, natural, home-affections."
Then followed affectionate messages from them at home, who were very lonely now, and longed to have him with them all which had a power beyond any reproaches to win the boy back to that purity of heart and life which belonged to his home-affections, and was safe when they were strong, and was imperilled when they were forgotten.
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