'--And that knowing you have nothing to spare,
father, and not wishing to be a burden on you, he gradually made up his mind to go seek his fortune out of learning.
He was sitting moodily among the suitors thinking about his brave
father, and how he would send them flying out of the house, if he were to come to his own again and be honoured as in days gone by.
"As far as worldly wealth goes," continued his
father, "you will no doubt stand far superior to your brothers in a few years."
"It will be a sad while before you can be married, Mary," said her
father, not looking at her, but at the end of the stick which he held in his other hand.
"DEAR ANNE,--Have only just heard that my
father is turning the corner.
'What a very early dog!' cried his
father, contemplating him from behind the toothpick, with a languid smile.
'And where and when did this extraordinary event take place?' inquired the
father.
Seryozha's eyes, that had been shining with gaiety and tenderness, grew dull and dropped before his
father's gaze.
Tom had not heard anything from home for some weeks,--a fact which did not surprise him, for his
father and mother were not apt to manifest their affection in unnecessary letters,--when, to his great surprise, on the morning of a dark, cold day near the end of November, he was told, soon after entering the study at nine o'clock, that his sister was in the drawing-room.
I have told Miss Wendermott this - that I met you first in the village of Bekwando with a concession in your hand made out to you and her
father jointly, with the curious proviso that in the event of the death of one the other was his heir.
After this my
father was seldom at home, and my mother had few spare moments; wherefore, I found myself forgotten.
"Servin is a good fellow, who has done well," cried Piombo; "but you, my daughter, you do wrong to love any man, except your
father."