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For, in spite of my efforts to think of something else, I thought how the gusty rain was drifting over the slopes and valleys of our farm; how wet must be the foliage that overshadowed the pulpit rock; how cheerless, in such a day, my hermitage the tree-solitude of my owl-like humors in the vine-encircled heart of the tall pine! It was a phase of homesickness.
My mother would know this my gentle, pale-faced mother. Our little cottage was now visible, with its low walls of grayish white, and vine-encircled windows. "Richard," said I, walking as slowly as possible, though it was growing darker every moment, "I feel very unhappy. I will go and see the master in the morning and ask him to punish me for both.