The Waldorf family . CHAPTER VIII. AN you not find it in your heartto wish our children less fondof legendary tales? asked theyounger Mrs. Waldorf, smilingly,as she saw grandfather lay asidea volume in which he was deeplyinterested, and rise from his seat atthe summons of little Bertha. No, my daughter, answered thekind old man; children are apt to thinkthere are so few links between youth andage, that I am always glad when theyfind more than they looked for. But you suffer them to interrupt you in yourfavorite studies. I do not feel it an interruption. I am like a 174. traveller who, having a
The Waldorf family . CHAPTER VIII. AN you not find it in your heartto wish our children less fondof legendary tales? asked theyounger Mrs. Waldorf, smilingly,as she saw grandfather lay asidea volume in which he was deeplyinterested, and rise from his seat atthe summons of little Bertha. No, my daughter, answered thekind old man; children are apt to thinkthere are so few links between youth andage, that I am always glad when theyfind more than they looked for. But you suffer them to interrupt you in yourfavorite studies. I do not feel it an interruption. I am like a 174. traveller who, having arrived within sight of thecity of his rest, seats himself on a green bank,awaiting the opening of the gates. If the littlechildren gather round him, in curiosity or in kind-ness, he will not rebuke them, but rather whileaway with them the hours that must pass betweenthe eventide and the glad sun-rising. You under-stand my metaphor, daughter; my work on earthis nearly done. Milton says : 1 They also serve, who only stand and wait. May I not believe, therefore, that having servedGod in my youth, with all the active powers ofmy mind, I am also humbly serving him now,while I seem to be only awaiting his pleasure, tocall me home ? The love with which I have in-spired the young hearts of that dear group, whoare now gathering round my old chair in the porch,is a comfort to me, and will, I trust, be a blessingto them. With regard to my legends, I can onlysay, that as the downy filament which encirclescertain seeds, enables them to fly on the wings of
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