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Updated: June 13, 2025
With youth's hopefulness she believed that he might become a man if he only would. At any rate, she half-consciously formed the reckless purpose to shut her eyes to all presentiments of coming trouble and enjoy the evening to the utmost. Hannibal was enjoined to get up as fine a supper as possible, regardless of cost, with Mrs. Allen's maid to assist.
They went upstairs, and the mother stood open-eyed while the Squire's restless look gathered in the details of the room, the youth's face as he lay back on his pillows, whiter than they, exhausted and yet refreshed by the sponging with vinegar and water which the mother had just been administering to him; the bed, the gaps in the worm-eaten boards, the holes in the roof where the plaster bulged inward, as though a shake would bring it down; the coarse china shepherdesses on the mantelshelf, and the flowers which Catherine had put there the day before.
We had given him the name, too, because the distinctive feature of this youth's character was his lively sense of the beautiful in Nature and Art, a sense so keen, that his mind was, so to speak, merely the shadowing forth of the ideal or material beauty scattered through-out the works of God and man.
"It is our nephew, little Anna's boy, come to live with us, Hannah." "To live with us?" she repeated, in a hoarse voice. "Yes," answered uncle Nathan, taking the youth's hand between both his plump palms, and smoothing it caressingly as he would have quieted a kitten, for he felt all the chill that was in her voice. Where else should our sister's child make his home?" "But his father?"
She met him without surprise, but with an embarrassed look. Instantly a dark chilling cloud seemed to settle down on the poor youth's spirit. Mingled with a host of other indescribable feelings, there was one, very strong, of indignation; but with a violent effort he controlled his features, so as to indicate no feeling at all. "This is an unexpected meeting, Manuela.
His eyes wandered involuntarily up the hill as he spoke. "Gone out walking, has she?" The youth's eyes followed in the same direction. "Which way has she gone?" "I don't know exactly which path she may have taken." Bates's words grew more formal the harder he felt himself pressed. "Path!" burst out the young man "Macadamised road, don't you mean?
And is it not better for both of you that youth should open upon the world with youth's natural affections free and unforestalled?" "True! And she is so above me," said Leonard, mournfully. "No one is above him who succeeds in your ambition, Leonard. It is not that, believe me." Leonard shook his head. "Perhaps," said Harley, with a smile, "I rather feel that you are above me.
Was not our departure on the voyage of life like that of Athenian Theori for the island of Delos, sailing to the sound of harps and songs while crowned with flowers? Did not our hearts beat responsive to the chorus of youth's protecting genii? Strength said, "What matters the task? Feel you not that to you it will all be easy? It is the weak alone who weigh the burden.
She had dreamed of this moment; she had seen visions of it in the daytime; she had told herself again and again what it would be, how it must be; but the reality was beyond her dreams and her visions and her imaginings, for she had to the full what few women have in any century, and what few have ever had in the blush of maidenhood, the sight of the man she loved, and who loved her with all his heart, coming home in triumph from a hard-fought war, himself the leader and the victor, himself in youth's first spring, the young idol of a warlike nation, and the centre of military glory.
Stepping easily from the house of the Jew to the terrace of his neighbour, he proceeded with extreme caution to the chimney pointed out to him, and took his stand under its shadow. It was a time and situation which induced many burning thoughts and sad reflections to chase each other through the youth's brain, as he awaited impatiently the clouding of the moon.
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