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It was the love for his mother, his love of his homelife in Pall Mall and the sweetheart who was waiting for him there that called him back to the "Valley of the Three Forks o' the Wolf" after he had gone out into the world and won fame among men.
The rebuke of some kind was clearer than the other part. Needless to say the fumes of his recent orgy spoke then with some asperity in a curious bitter way foreign to his sober state. Probably the homelife to which Mr B attached the utmost importance had not been all that was needful or he hadn't been familiarised with the right sort of people.
His wife was not of our faith and was also too busily occupied to look after the child. He did not mention that her occupation was that of society butterfly, who sacrificed homelife, husband and child in the pursuit of pleasure. Would Reverend Mother kindly undertake the charge of his little Nita's education, spiritual as well as intellectual?
Hugh Mainwaring, the sole heir to the family estate, soon after the death of his father, some twenty-five years previous to this time, became weary of the monotony of his English homelife, and, resolved upon making his permanent home in one of the large eastern cities of the United States and embarking upon the uncertain and treacherous seas of speculation in the western world, had sold the estate which for a number of generations had been in the possession of the Mainwarings, and had come to America.
"Surely only on the apple trees," said Lady Caroline. Ada Spelvexit gave up the attempt to reproduce the decorative setting of the Canon's homelife, and fell back on the small but practical consolation of scoring the odd trick in her opponent's declaration of hearts.
Eddicated men aint great on homelife; they want a monstrous sight of waitin' on." "Let us hope for the best in this case," said I. "Here comes Matthias; he knows Mr. Dayton, I believe." "Yas, Miss Em'ly, I does," said Matthias, who heard my last remark. "Is he a nice man?"
Beginning with the first page I was charmed with the sincerity of the description. And at the end I admired the composition of the whole, the logical way the events were worked out and the characters related. That is one of the choicest parts of your book, together with the homelife, the life in New York? Your good savage makes me laugh out loud when he is at the Opera. You make it seem real.
On either side of the front door were the parlor and living room; the former seldom opened, and the latter rarely occupied until afternoon and evening. The back door was the most in use at all times, and it was through it that one came nearest to the hearts and homelife of the inmates.
For some time he resisted the idea of taking this place, because it had been procured for him through the influence of Lord Steyne, whose patronage was odious to him, as he had been the means of ruining the Colonel's homelife. The Colonel's instinct also was for at once removing the boy from the school where Lord Steyne's interest had placed him.
'Magdalen's joyless homelife of incessant, unselfish service. That is very well put, isn't it? And so is this: 'It is your duty now to inform him that you withdraw all opposition to the renewal of the engagement, and to invite him to Priesthope. Really, Aunt Mary sticks at nothing. I warn you solemnly, father, this is only the thin end of the wedge.
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