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But this programme was not to be begun before evening not till just before dinner, indeed, at which meal the re-assembled family were to sit roseate, and the best wine, the modern fatted calf, should flow for the prodigal's return. Meanwhile he walked familiar streets, merry reminiscences crowding round him, sad ones also, both with the same surprising pathos.
Suddenly, his wandering glance fell upon the pale face of Charles Thompson; and with a gleam of childlike recognition, and a weak, falsetto laugh, he darted forward, caught at the table, upset the glasses, and literally fell upon the prodigal's breast. "Sha'ly! yo' d d ol' scoun'rel, hoo rar ye!"
The three embraced automatically rather than heartily, and Kedzie came out of her mother's bosom chilled, though it was a warm night and Mrs. Thropp had traveled long. Also there was a lot of her. Kedzie gave her parents the welcome that the prodigal's elder brother gave him. She was thinking: "What will Jim Dyckman say when he learns that my real name is Thropp and sees this pair of Thropps?
In the first moment of his discovery he had intended, figuratively speaking, to fall upon the prodigal's neck, and converse with him in the old, familiar style; but now, between Valentine Fenleigh, Esq., of the sex, and Private Fenleigh, of the Royal Blankshire, there was a great gulf fixed, and the latter, especially, seemed determined to recognize that the former conditions of their friendship could now no longer exist.
And others said, "He is some prodigal that hath sold his land for silver and gold, and meaneth to spend all right merrily." Then the Sheriff called Robin to him, not knowing him in his butcher's dress, and made him sit close to him on his right hand; for he loved a rich young prodigal especially when he thought that he might lighten that prodigal's pockets into his own most worshipful purse.
Every one of them contained sensational stories of the prodigal's trip, with pictures, incidents and predictions. Monty was pained, humiliated and resentful, but he was honest enough to admit the justification of much that was said of him. He read bits of it here and there and then threw the papers aside hopelessly. In a few weeks they would tell another story, and quite as emphatically.
Suddenly she pointed with uplifted hand: "Oh, faither, I see oor Elsie's face an' the token's in her haun', an' it's a' bricht wi' gowden licht. She's biddin' us a' hame me, an' faither, an' Robin " and she passed into the homeland bearing the prodigal's name with her up to God. I gently closed her eyes. Donald stood long beside the bed; then, taking his son into his arms, he said
Nor does the freeness of his grace prove that the prodigal's sins are small; it proves only that the forgiving love of Christ is great. There is still a class corresponding to the Pharisees, and to these the Lord in this parable conveys both warning and encouragement.
The time began to draw near when his father would have returned from the office, and it would be the prodigal's cue to enter. He strolled westward by Albany Street, facing the sunset embers, pleased, he knew not why, to move in that cold air and indigo twilight, starred with street-lamps. But there was one more disenchantment waiting him by the way.
The death-bed repentance of the prodigal is always most consoling to the elder brother much more consoling, in fact, than the prodigal's return. Now, how the deuce am I to make up a plausible repentance for you, if I don't know what you've done? 'But I've not done anything, said Hyacinth ineffectively. The Captain ignored him. 'Come, now, it can't be anything very bad at your age.
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