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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." Later, however, Irving speaks of this as the "crowning honor of his life." He remained abroad four years, when he sent in his resignation, and hurried home to spend his last years at Sunnyside. His first thought was to build an addition to his cottage, in order to have room for all his nieces and nephews.
"Then I think I shall go home and see if she has arrived there yet," she said. She smiled down at Miles. "Even irresponsibility needs checking if carried too far." The first person Sara encountered on her return to Sunnyside was Jane Crab, unmistakably bursting to impart some news. "The doctor's going away, miss," she announced, flinging her bombshell without preliminary. "Going away?"
Thanks to Brady's stroke of genius about the petrol I've evidently underestimated the man's good points I think I can promise you that you shall have Miss Molly safely back at Sunnyside in the course of a few hours. That is, if you are willing to trust me in the matter." "Of course I will trust you," she answered simply.
In this room he wrote portions of Oliver Goldsmith, parts, too, of the Life of Mahomet, and arranged the notes of what was to be his last book the Life of Washington. But his real home was Sunnyside, and there, in the year 1859, when he was seventy-six years old, he died. With Paulding, Drake, and Halleck
Then she linked her hand through Jane Denton's arm, called to Laura Everett to follow her, while Annie Millar, Laura's special friend, immediately turned to join the little group, and the four children soon found themselves in the shade of one of the thickest plantations in Sunnyside. "Oh dear! oh dear!" said Laura, speaking excitedly, "there has been a fuss made.
"You just go up and tell him you have come aboard. It will be all right. Although he looks very grand, he is all right at bottom; and I have heard more than one thing in his favour. He won't eat you; so don't be afear'd, Bill." Bill did as he was advised, and presented the captain's card. Mr Barker glanced at it. "Oh! You are Bill Sunnyside. We will enter you. Master-at-arms, see to this boy."
"Now, do you know what I have done? I have left Sunnyside and have come over here, and am just waiting for a telegram from mother giving her consent to my spending a great portion of my time with you. But if you go for the hammer and come back and break this window I shall go straight home to mother, whatever she says. Now, you can choose. Go away now, and behave yourself.
After the final location of the work, additional borings were made, particularly on shaft sites and also along the approaches and in the Sunnyside Yard, Long Island City. A triangulation was carried across the river with a measured base on each side. It was impossible to measure directly between the extremities of either base.
It is Sunnyside to this day, altered by additions made in the intervening years, but still the house of Irving; and the ivy clinging to its walls has sprung from a root taken from the ruins of Scott's "fair Melrose" and planted where it now grows by the friendly hand of Jane Renwick. Here was once the home of John T. Irving, a nephew of the author.
In such places as Sunnyside little conventional restraints were unknown and in a very few moments the two women were chatting like old friends while Dr.
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