Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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TOMMIE JACKSON was in England for the first time in her life. Tommie was a young American girl, as her name indicates; she had been born in New York, the capital city of America. Her family, indeed, had some claim to respectability; her father, and also a distant cousin, had visited England in youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon...
...been thinking of William Pear, a young man from Boston, who was in the soap business and lived on Beacon Street. Young Pear, in spite of his greenness and the obnoxious soap, was sensible - and clean. But there was an undefined shrinking from him in her heart. His father...
...walked through the wilderness of this world, I laid me down and slept. And in a dream a fair oasis met my sight, and I saw one Lighthead leave a fair city in this oasis, parting from father and mother, from brother and from sister, yea, from his cousin also. And on his back was strapped a great burden of books, but in his head had he none. And Lighthead journeyed forth from his kindred thus, declaring that he would learn wisdom and taste of the tree of knowledge. And as he went (gently reclining in a Palace...
...know not what impulse made me beg her not to go, as earnestly as I dared. I said it would not be safe for two only; I dared not tell her that I distrusted her father. She laughed at my objections, and asked me if I would accompany and protect them...
...Captain Scuffles could only consent. Mr. Carlin, with a surprising degree of agility considering his blindness, climbed down into the yacht, and I helped Bertha after; for the father's rudeness was surely no fault of the daughter. So, the skipper shoving the prow out and I loosing the hawsers, the Rosa cleared the pier, Mr. Carlin hoisting sail with marvellous expertness...