700 Common Words Exercise No. 39
The girl was 18 years old when he went away. There
came before his eyes a memory of her so clear that he was surprised. In all of
his six years he had never remembered here in that way. She was as lovely as a
summer morning, and she was sweet and good. The waters of all the seas that he
had seen were not as blue as her eyes, and no gold that he had mined was more
beautiful than the expression on her face when first he told her that he loved
her and asked her to wait for him. Being young, she was willing enough to wait
but she did not want him to go far away. He would never return, she said. So
many of the old people she knew in that little town in the Highlands had
brothers or children who had gone away to make money and who had never
returned. Many of them had never been heard of again. He offered here comfort
for her fears, and said with his hand on his heart that he would return to her.
“I shall turn up again, my love,” he said, “like a bad penny. But,” he added,
“I shall not come back with bad pennies in my hand but with good gold in the
bank.” Who said I wished for gold?” she cried, in her fear. “A little farm in
our lovely Highlands is good enough for me.” But he made light of such an idea.
He told her that she was a girl in a million, and he would make a million
pounds for her. When he was going away he made here tell him once again that
she would wait for him, and then he stepped on to the ship, leaving her crying.
As he thought of all these things he saw that the land had become much clearer.
Quite soon he would be home. He had wired May as well as his family, asking
them to meet him. When he was far away he had been full of certainty. His
family would be just as he had left them, and May would not have changed. There
she would be standing waiting for him, her lovely face full of happiness. His
old mother, too, would be there, and his brother Will. But all at once a real
fear touched his heart. Why should things be just the same at home when life
had changed so much for him? Why should be expect them all to run to see him at
the first opportunity when he had left them almost without news for so long? He
found that he could not understand how he went through all those years without
writing to his home more than two or three times. To May he had never written.
When he was doing badly and had no money he did not wish to write and let them
know that he had had no success. When he was successful and making money he had
had no time for writing letters. If no one was there to meet him, what would he
do? He began to walk up and down, up and down, trying to pass the hours until
the ship reached land. At last his ship was within a mile of the homeland. The
details of buildings began to show up clearly, and quite quickly they were very
near. Then they were moving little by little, and with a last movement the ship
came to rest. At first he could see no one he knew. There were others on the
ship who also expected their families or friends to meet them, and about a
hundred people were down there, looking up at the great ship and crying out
when they saw their dear ones on board. Then he saw five people standing on
their own, away from the others. An old man and woman, a young man and a young
woman, and a little boy of about two years of age. He saw them clearly now, his
father and mother grown aged in those six years, and his own May with his
brother Will, each holding a hand of the little boy. The truth came to him. The
girl really did want the simple life of the Highlands! She had married his
young brother Will.
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