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Updated: June 5, 2025
Time may have brought you somethin' better better than you dreamed of on that summer mornin'. But it is different, anyhow; and you can't help gettin' kinder homesick, longin', wantin' that pretty young face again, wantin' the heart back again that went with it. Wall, I s'pose we shall have it back sometime. I s'pose we shall get back our lost youth in the place where we first got it.
"I think it'll be a bad day for Sweetwater Bluff when Crux comes to settle in it. Howsoever, this is a free country, an' we've no right to interfere with him so long as he don't break the laws. But I doubt him. I'm afeard he'll try to sell drink, an' there's some o' our people who are longin' to git back to that."
Then I went on calmly and brung up a few laws and laid 'em down before him. I brung up the Indians doin's, the Mormons, the Chinese, all on 'em flagrant. But still he had that longin' look on his face.
It was full of love and respict to his poor parents, an' he longin' to see them in 'Meriky; but he said he had written by stealth, for he was very unhappy intirely, that his uncle thrated him hardly, becaze he would not be a praste, an' wanted to lave him, to work for himsel'; an' he refused to buy him a farm wid the money his grandfather left him, which he was bound by the will to do, as Mike was now of age, an' his own masther.
I've seen 'em; I've laid 'n' watched 'em 'most a thousand times. He blinks agin, 'n' finds hisse'f a-lookin' squar in ter a pair of twinklin' eyes that seems ter've been awake all night, jest a-watchin', with sly longin', from 'tween two leaves. Maybe he'd seen those eyes afore, but not jest like this.
Kathleen, avourneen machree! how my heart beats wid longin' to see you, asthore, and to see the weeny crathurs glory be to Him that has left them to me praise and glory to His name!" He was now within a few perches of thy door; but a sudden misgiving shot across his heart when he saw it shut, and no appearance of smoke from the chimney, nor of stir or life about the house. He advanced
Now, Dickory boy, make your heels fly! I noticed, before we got here, that some o' the men were makin' their way to the boats; dash ye amang them, Dickory, an' tell them that the day they've been longin' for, ever since they set foot on the vessel, has now come. Their captain is a prisoner, an' they are free to hurry on board their vessel an' carry awa wi' them a' their vile plunder."
Come, Peety," he added, after a pause, "let us see how they all are inside; I'm longin' to see them, especially poor, dear Dora; an' God bless me! here she is! no, she ran back to tell them but ay oh, ay! here she is again, my darlin' girl, comin' to meet me."
"I do hope, if it's anybody, it's that ther' Moody," said the maid. "A pretty sort of a Christian you think yourself, I dare say," Mrs. Boulby replied. "Christian or not, one can't help longin' for a choice, mum. We ain't all hands and knees." "Better for you if you was," said the widow. "It's tongues, you're to remember, you're not to be. Now come you up after me and you'll not utter a word.
And sometimes you feel a sort of a homesick longin' for your old self for the bright, eager face that looked back to you from the old lookin'-glass on summer mornin's, when the winder was open out into the orchard, and the May birds was singin' amidst the apple-blows.
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