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Morton, rising angrily and stamping his foot. The children, who were in great awe of their father, huddled and hustled each other to the door; but Tom, who went last, bold in his mother's favour, popped his head through the doorway, and cried, "Good-bye, little home-sick!"
One or two of the younger members confessed to being home-sick, for the voyage was long and it was not at all certain that we should all win back to "England, home, and beauty."
Twice he tried to escape from his thraldom, and was twice brought back. "I have bought you, John," his partner had laughed, "and you don't get away from me. Surely you can be content with these comforts. You were content with less once. I am not so ugly and repulsive, am I?" "I am home-sick," John Carr retorted. "Let us go to England, Sarah."
"Three months later we found her, beaten and bruised from head to foot, at the door of the Home. She had been in a place where care and shelter were expected, but when the poor, home-sick girl cried, they abused her and then put her out on the street, and somehow she found her way to our Home. "You would enjoy seeing how quickly the girls in our Home learn to help each other.
The older man was just like any elderly business man, for all he could see, nothing so especially attractive about him, although Marise had said in her ardent way that he was "the sort of old American you love on sight, the kind that makes you home-sick when you meet him in Europe." And as for Mr. Marsh, he couldn't see any signs of his being such a record-breaking live-wire as they had all said.
May I relate to you all I can remember of myself before I came here? It will be such a comfort to have some person near me, who will allow me to talk of those I love, without ridiculing me, and calling me "home-sick."
"Yes, indeed, I know, it is his cousins who have put this fancy in his head with their glowing letters. But I suppose we cannot prevent him going if his heart is set on it?" "What can we do? He is a free man and must go his own way." "Well, perhaps it is best. When he is home-sick he will come back again." "I am afraid it will be long enough before that happens. At starting all seems so fine.
Sometimes they played at the dambrod, but more often they pulled down the blinds on London and talked of Thrums in their mother tongue. Nevertheless few of them wanted to return to it, and their favorite joke was the case of James Gloag's father, who being home-sick flung up his situation and took train for Thrums, but he was back in London in three weeks.
Aunt Polly always makes 'em deep enough to swim in; and she don't spare the maple sugar at all, nor the ginger, nor the shortnin' in the crust. And she crimps the edges so curious." "How do you like a batin' like this, Fabens?" asked Colwell. "What makes you so mum? aint home-sick, be you?" "I like it well, I assure you. I didn't think bear's meat was so fine," answered Fabens.
Sez I, "Don't you remember about little Mignon, who wuz so home-sick for her own land, and would keep askin': 'Knowest thou the land where citron apples bloom, And oranges like gold amidst the leafy gloom? "You remember it, Josiah. I've seen you shed tears when he wuz readin' about her."
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