 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 σελίδες
...of her faithful son. " And now, my dear mother," he said to her in plaintive remonstrance, "after my having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me!" It must be admitted that Goldsmith was given to overdoing this picturesque part of the Prodigal Son.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1911 - 236 σελίδες
...dubbed Fiddleback. "And now, my dear mother," he cried, "after having struggled so hard to come back to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me ! " The good woman was in despair. But the fairy godmother. in the shape of Uncle Contarine, intervened.... | |
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And now, dear mother, he concluded, after ' having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me. — She and all present expressed their joy at his return, and enjoined him to transmit the most early and grateful... 
