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He was homesick for the gentle sister he had neglected, the rough brothers whose cheeks he had pelted black and blue; and yearned for the very chinks in the walls, the very thatch on the home-roof. Gladly would he have given every fairy-flower, at the root of which clung a lump of gold ore, if he might have had his own coverlet "happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised.
He was homesick for the gentle sister he had neglected, the rough brothers whose cheeks he had pelted black and blue; and yearned for the very chinks in the walls, the very thatch on the home-roof. Gladly would he have given every fairy-flower, at the root of which clung a lump of gold ore, if he might have had his own coverlet "happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised.
Not he, unless he loved her more than all the world, and said so first. Mara was resolved upon that. He might go where he liked flirt with whom he liked come back as late as he pleased; never would she, by word or look, give him reason to think she cared. Moses passed rather a restless and uneasy night on his return to the home-roof which had sheltered his childhood.
One of the nights to look back upon and to gloat over in memory was this night by the fireside at Fordham cottage with the Mother a night of calm and content under the home-roof after tempestuous wandering. A quiet, sweet Christmas they spent together he reading, writing or talking over plans for new work, while she sat by with her sewing and Catalina dozed on the hearth.
The Princess Royal, always much liked, appealed especially to the popular imagination at this time because of her extreme youth, her position as a bride, and the circumstance that she was the first of the Queen's children thus to quit the home-roof.
"What sorcery is this of yours!" exclaimed Sandip next day. "Amulya is a boy no longer, the wick of his life is all ablaze. Who can hide your fire under your home-roof? Every one of them must be touched up by it, sooner or later, and when every lamp is alight what a grand carnival of a Dewali we shall have in the country!"
Even the bride's cake was taken from the oven by her own fair hands, because no one servant, sister, or even mother was willing to run the risk of burning sister Ellen's bride's cake; and "she knew just how to bake it." We were not left alone in our labours: for Ellen had been loved by more than the home-roof sheltered.
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