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There is nothing in it flattering to human nature; nothing that seems to give the weary, selfish heart a pillow to rest upon. In most cases it has a mocking sound." "You have taught me more than one life-lesson, Mr. Allison. Speak freely now. I will listen patiently, earnestly, looking for instruction.
To the thoughtless young couple the incidents of that day were a life-lesson that never passed entirely from their remembrance.
One boy was appointed to each bird, in order to carry out the business of teaching the tune by whistling it incessantly until the air was firmly fixed in those tiny memories, which, if they had not been exactly 'wax to receive, proved 'marble to retain. As the finches grew perfect in their one life-lesson, the Scottish ditty resounded sweetly all over the village of Northbourne.
My first ideas of death and decay were formed whilst standing beside my mother's grave. There my heart received its first life-lesson; and owned its first acquaintanceship with grief the ideal vanished, and the hard, uncompromising real took its place. After the funeral was over, I accompanied my Uncle Robert to his house in Hatton Garden. At the door we parted with Mr.
Dinneford taught Edith a nobler life-lesson than this, gave her better views of wedlock, pictured for her loving heart the bliss of a true marriage, sighing often as he did so, but unconsciously, at the lost fruition of his own sweet hopes. He was careful to do this only when alone with Edith, guarding his speech when Mrs. Dinneford was present.
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