May You Like It
by Charles Benjamin Tayler (9780217233538)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A MERCHANT'S SON. There are times when the mind indulges itself in a sort of security of happiness; when it allows itself to anticipate a thousand little delights, without one accompanying fear of the future. This particular feeling, from its very nature, can only last a very short time: it is a weakness of mind in any one; it is wrong in the Christian, for it is one of those intervals when he neglects to watch and pray; when he is, from trusting to the world, often bitterly disappointed by the world?it was when indulging in the full luxury of this feeling, that Duncan Forbes returned home; two young men, with whom he was slightly acquainted, had accompanied him from the place where he had last stopped: they were to sleep at Glasgow on their way to England. " Don't you envy me," said Duncan; " you are both going to a strange inn; while I shall be welcomed by a dear family, who love me more than I deserve, I do believe. Some of them will run out to meet me, I suppose, and I shall be thought so much of, and so anticipated in all my wishes, that if I am my real humble self again, for some time, I only know I shall wonder."? The young companions separated. " Well," exclaimed Duncan," they can't know I am come, yet James spoke to me as he opened the gate; no one rushes out however. Where can Florella and Jeanie be ? and that idle little Marion How does every one do ?" said he, laughing, as Tie entered the house. He flew into the room and kissed them all: " You see I am quite well, my dear mother; and I have so much to tell you. Highland air and hard study agree so well with me; I've found time to see every thing, to ramble about, not with guides, but quite by myself, often in the most unfrequented spots. I have been half wild, Florella, when I allowed my mind to relax in th...

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