Dinah Craik

Name: John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV
Author: Dinah Craik

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“John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV”, is a work by Dinah Craik. It explores elements such as Guy, Edwin and Lady Oldtower.

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ I mean to be a man. Not the first man whom a lady has refused—eh?" And braving it out, he began to whistle; but the lips fell—the frank brow grew knotted with pain. The lad broke into a passion of misery.
The chief bitterness was that he had been deceived. Unwittingly, we well believed—but still deceived. Many little things he told me— Guy's was a nature that at once spent and soothed itself by talking— of Miss Silver's extreme gentleness and kindness towards him; a kindness which seemed so like, so cruelly like love.
"Love!—Oh, she loved me. She told me so. Of course!—I was Edwin's brother." ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ I think all parents must feel cruelly a pang like this—the first trouble in which they cannot help their children—the first time when those children must learn to stand alone, each for himself, compelled to carry his own burthen and work out, well or ill, his individual life. When the utmost the wisest or tenderest father can do, is to keep near with outstretched hand that the child may cling to, assured of finding sympathy, counsel, and love. ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ But she saw that Guy was right. To expect him to remain at home was cruelty. As he had said, he could not bear it—few could. Few even among women—of men much fewer. One great renunciation is possible, sometimes easy, as death may be; but to "die daily?" In youth, too, with all the passions vehement, the self-knowledge and self-control small? No; Nature herself, in that universal desire to escape, which comes with such a trial, hints at the unnaturalness of the ordeal; in which, soon or late, the weak become paralysed or callous; the strong—God help them!—are apt to turn wicked. ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ We know Who pities us, even as we pity our children."
Thus she spoke, and more to the same purport; but it was a long time before her words brought any consolation. Then the parents talked together, trying to arrange some plan whereby Guy's mind might be occupied and soothed, or else Edwin removed out of his sight for a little while. Once I hinted at the advantage of Guy's leaving home; but Mrs. Halifax seemed to shrink from this project as though it were a foreboding of perpetual exile.
"No, no; anything but that. Beside, Guy would not wish it. He has never left me in his life. ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ For, as we both knew well—too well to trust ourselves to say it—if there was one thing in the world that ruins a lad, drives him to desperation, shuts the door of home upon him, and opens many another door, of which the entrance is the very gate of hell—it is such a disappointment as this which had happened to our Guy. ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ Then, do not you. Let us be patient—we shall all be happy in time."
"And—Guy?"
"Guy will be himself soon," returned the mother, rather proudly. "We will not mention him, if you please, my dear."
At this moment, Guy must have heard the carriage-wheels and guessed Miss Silver was going, for he appeared at the parlour door. He found his mother toying with Miss Silver's hand; Edwin standing by, proud and glad, with his arm clasped round Louise.
He did not remove it. In his brother's very face—perhaps because of the expression of that face—the lover held fast his own.
Mrs. Halifax rose up, alarmed. ”

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Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman — Chapter XXXIV

“ I had been dreaming, with a curious pertinacity, of the old days at Rose Cottage, the days when John first fell in love with Ursula.
"Uncle Phineas." I heard myself called.
It was John's son, who sat opposite, with wan, wild eyes, and a settled anguish on his mouth—that merry, handsome mouth—the only really handsome mouth in the family.
"You are up early, my boy."
"What was the good of lying in bed? I am not ill. Besides, I wish to go about as usual. I don't wish anybody to think that—that I care."
He stopped—evidently fighting hard against himself. A new lesson, alas! for our Guy. ”

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