Capitolo 18
you/he/she can never come thin to Love it lies dead. With
female ability she foretold the secret one, with maternal
discretion her patience of counselled and his/her child
it accepted his/her suggestion, while feeling that, as very a
healthy grass, its value placed in its bitterness.
"You love as a man, John, not as a boy and
you learn to know him before you pick up a woman
the happiness in Your custody. Nan and You you have
known each other all of Your lives; anchor, cultivates this last
you visit, you never thought that you loved him more than
some other childish friend. It has to say too soon the
words so often languages hastily,--so firm to be recalled.
Goes up again to Your job, dear for another year; you think
of Nan in the light of this new hope:
you compare her/it with comelier, more cheerful girls; and from
absence feels the truth of Your belief. Then,
if it outdistances only ago his/her dearer, if it only calculates
it strengthens Your affection, and without doubt of Your
his/her own dignity disturbs her return and offer,
what some woman should be happy to take,--
the true heart of my boy."
John smiled at the maternal pride of his/her words,
but he/she answered with an anxious glance.
"It seems a lot from very to wait, mother. If I was able
only a word of the hope asks her, I could be a lot
patient then."
"Ah, my darling, bears better one year of the impatience
now that a life of regret in expectancy. Nan
it is happy; because it disturbs her/it from a word that the wish
hands the tender cares and troubles that come soon
enough to so conscientious creatures as her?
If she loves Him, time will try him/it; therefore, impediment
the spring of new and mature affection as Your soon
friendship has done, and it will be everything the strongest
for the growth in a summer. Phillip was rash, and it has
now to bear his/her test, and Laura divides him/it with him.
Is more generous John,; makes Your test bear,
Your doubts alone, and it gives the happiness to Nan
without the pain. Make me a promise this, dear,--promise