It's natural for Englishmen to
hate t' Spaniards and Papists. Why, thou knows, we've hed some tussles
wi' them ourselves; and Americans are our children, I reckon."
"Then Texans are your grandchildren; Texas is an American colony."
"They hed t' sense to choose a varry fine country, it seems. If I was
young again, I'd travel and see more o' t' world. But when I was thy
age folks thought t' sun rose and set i' England; that they did."
He was still able, leaning upon Richard's arm, to walk slowly up and
down his room, and sometimes into the long, central gallery, where
the likenesses of the older Hallams hung. He often visited them,
pausing before individuals: "I seem ta be getting nearer to them,
Richard," he said, one day; "I wonder if they know that I'm coming."
"I remember reading of a good man who, when he was dying, said to some
presence invisible to mortal eyes, 'Go! and tell my dead, I come!'"
"I would like to send a message to my father and mother, and to my
dear wife, and my dead son, Edward. It would be a varry pleasant thing
to see a face you know and loved after that dark journey."
"I have read that
"'Eyes watch us that we cannot see,
Lips warn us that we may not kiss,
They wait for us, and starrily
Lean toward us, from heaven's lattices.'"
"That's a varry comforting thought, Richard.
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