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Updated: May 8, 2025
He still retained the ignorance of urchinhood his sense of touch as yet so innocent that he failed to tell Albine's gown from the covers of the old armchairs.
The rain fell on both; the water waited for one. The Major was taller and heavier; Harry was younger and in better trim. Harry was cooler too. It was rude hugging, nothing more; neither of them had skill or knew more tricks than the common dimly remembered devices of urchinhood. The fight was most unpicturesque, most unheroic; but it was tolerably grim for all that.
Oh! innocent days of itinerant urchinhood, your freshness comes no more; we "move on" as of old waifs in the wide circuit of this nomad life but with the hymns which lulled us in the neglected meeting-house, the prophecies they told us of toil, duty, reverence, and content, have floated into heaven whither our father has gone!
Here was the child by my side, unquestionably the same; though now I looked in vain for the anxious mouth and the foreboding eyes in his face of careless, hopeful urchinhood. But who was the other? his mother, no doubt; and yet no trace of resemblance. "And tell me, who is this beautiful lady, my lad, here, and here, and here, and here again?
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