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Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ure—that future when he should perchancebe gone forever—was provided for inhis will, for she and her children wereto have the farm as a home always. At Brookfield all things were nowdifferent. There were happy childishvoices in the hitherto silent rooms;childish playthings making a pleasantlitter in the halls ; tiny tracks up anddown the garden walks, and a sweet,wholesome air of home-life everywhere. For Hollis, too, all things werechanged. There were no longer anydull days or hours of brooding; for thetwo little maids dogged his steps out ofdoors and climbed upon his knees inthe house. For him, their sunny facesmade a radiance everywhere, and theirclinging arms and baby kisses took theache out of his heart as nothing else hadever done. In their eyes he had nodefect of character or of person ; and itwas the happiness they brought himthat enabled him to school his heart inregard to their mother. For as theyears went by and the daily contact oftheir lives showed him the nobility of
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Painted for Outing by A. W. Van Deusen. LIFE GAVE ITS ROSES ALL AWAY. (/. SS0 44 OUTING FOR OCTOBER. her character, the old love came backwith renewed strength. There weretimes when silence seemed impossible,when he needs must rush away from theroom or the house to keep from pouringout to her the story of his passion andhis pain. And Eunice, absorbed in her chil-dren and the memory of her husband,whom, now that he was gone, she for-gave and idealized, knew nothing ofthis struggle under the same roof withher. To her, Hollis was friend, protect- Duncan came back after peace wasdeclared, with a scar on his cheek and astar on his collar. But Hollis was nolonger able to tramp with him throughthe fields and swamps in search of birdsand insects. A racking cough had un-dermined his strength, and he liked bet-ter to sit on the porch or else in thesunny sitting-room and watch the chil-dren at play beside him. Each weekfound him less inclined to move about,and gradually they all fell into the ha

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