I should like something else: a little addition to the rite.

If one shook hands, for instance; but no--that would not content me either.

So you'll do no more than say Farewell, Jane ?" "It is enough, sir: as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many." "Very likely; but it is blank and cool--'Farewell.'" "How long is he going to stand with his back against that door ?" I asked myself; "I want to commence my packing." The dinner-bell rang, and suddenly away he bolted, without another syllable: I saw him no more during the day, and was off before he had risen in the morning.
I reached the lodge at Gateshead about five o'clock in the afternoon of the first of May: I stepped in there before going up to the hall.

It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.

Bessie sat on the hearth, nursing her last-born, and Robert and his sister played quietly in a corner.
"Bless you!--I knew you would come!" exclaimed Mrs.Leaven, as I entered.
"Yes, Bessie," said I, after I had kissed her; "and I trust I am not too late.