"You were here under my window, and I did not even know that you were alive!" Her tears of joy fell upon his face and he was moved profoundly.

Dick loved his beautiful young mother devoutly, and her widowhood had bound them all the more closely together.
"I've come a long distance, and I've come in many ways, mother," he replied, "by train, by horseback, and I have even walked." "You have come here on foot ?" "No, mother.

I rode directly over your own smooth lawn on one of the biggest horses you ever saw, and he's tied now between two of the pine trees.

Come, we must go in the house.

It's too cold for you out here.