I shouldn't feel half so bad if I knew Thomas was in the army now, as I do to think he ran away from home, just as though he had done some mean thing.

I am willing he should go, and he wouldn't be a son of mine if he wasn't ready to go and fight for his country, and die for her too, if there was any need of it.

I didn't think Thomas would serve me in this way." "I don't believe he has." "I know he's gone.

I like his spunk, but if he had only come to me and said he _must_ go, I wouldn't have said a word; but to go off without bidding us good by--it's too bad, and I didn't think Thomas would do such a thing." Mrs.Somers rose from her chair, and paced the room in the highest state of agitation and excitement.

The rockers were not adequate to the duty required of them, and nothing less than the whole floor of the kitchen was sufficient for the proper venting of her emotion.
"Do you mean to say, mother, that you would have given him leave to go, even if he had teased you for a month ?" asked John.
"Certainly I should," replied his mother, stopping short in the middle of the floor.