At, last, when his mother, having come to the end of her arguments, began to cry, he hastily kissed her, and went away that he might avoid any further remonstrances.
He had been absent a year, and there was nothing to give them hopes of his return.

His parents hardly saw him once a month, and then he only stayed a few moments with them.
"I have been punished where I had hoped to be rewarded," Michael said to me just now.

"I had wished for a saving and industrious son, and God has given me an ambitious and avaricious one! I had always said to myself that when once he was grown up we should have him always with us, to recall our youth and to enliven our hearts.

His mother was always thinking of getting him married, and having children again to care for.
You know women always will busy themselves about others.

As for me, I thought of him working near my bench, and singing his new songs; for he has learnt music, and is one of the best singers at the Orpheon.
"A dream, sir, truly! Directly the bird was fledged, he took to flight, and remembers neither father nor mother.