Word: homesickness
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...grand passion of my life. I tried for years to get over it. I've stopped trying. It's incurable." When she was living in France she used to haunt the wheat fields; once while she watched the harvesting she burst into homesick tears...
When John Dixon Folkes, expatriate, half-French, came to Kentucky in 1890 to visit his father's family, he was homesick for Paris. But he was only 17, and Susan Abel was pretty. When she let him seduce her he was going to let it go at that. But then old Gabriel, direct descendant of Hunter Gabriel, began to tell him some of the family history. By the time the old man finished, young John decided to marry the girl, stay in Kentucky...
...when she lost Buck she lost everything. The last time Caroline saw her friend was in Paris, where Maggie came for an abortion and died in a charity hospital. Then came the War, and Caroline worked as a nurse in the daytime, at night as a proxy sweetheart for homesick soldiers. In post-War Paris she was one of the loudest maenads. One day she decided to take old Tawaska's advice, go off in her own company and have a look at herself. Caroline may not be Authoress Borden's mouthpiece, but Caroline has a low opinion...
...there's a sore point: the old rover is homesick. With the best of intentions and a desire to keep pace with progress he packed himself off to Lowell House last year, determined to take part in the new Harvard. But after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much...
...major shock of the week for U.S. Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...