Still, you may.
And even if you do not, to have seen him, even as you may see him, is better, in a way, than not to have seen him at all." Edward did not know what Phillips Brooks meant.

But he was, sadly, to find out the next day.
A boy was pretty sure of a welcome from Louisa Alcott, and his greeting from her was spontaneous and sincere.
"Why, you good boy," she said, "to come all the way to Concord to see us," quite for all the world as if she were the one favored.

"Now take your coat off, and come right in by the fire.

Do tell me all about your visit." Before that cozy fire they chatted.

It was pleasant to the boy to sit there with that sweet-faced woman with those kindly eyes! After a while she said: "Now I shall put on my coat and hat, and we shall walk over to Emerson's house.