Grace Howard and the Family at Glen Luna Author:Susan Warner 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: CHAPTER II. From thence the llde of fortune left the shore, And ebbed muc'i faster tbftn It flowed before. Daren. The man who, getting frightened when ... more »half across a river, turned about and swam back, has been more laughed at than he deserved ; for there is always at least a question of shores, and the remnant of that strength which will suffice to reach either may be much the most available on one. It is possible to rest and recruit where enterprise would be madness. Had we followed this renowned example, and turned our backs upon Fortune when she took leave of us, we should have been—I don't know what—it is impossible now to say; but we should not have been the possessors of Glen Luna. Like wise people, we pushed on, and entered " the diggings" with neither the proper utensils nor the means and skill to procure and use them. One precautionary measure we did take—wo sold oiir town house—as soldiers burn the ships which have brought them where they are to conquer or die. It was not quite for the same reason; but the times were changed now in earnest, and as we could not keep all, of course we chose the new. How far this desired possession had made it needful to part with most things else, perhaps no one guessed but Mrs. Howard; nor do I now know. One thing was certain—we were to leave Philadelphia, and because we must. Various were the opinions of people about us and our private arrangements; and my father's regard to them was as steadily cool and careless. In the first place, he merely meant to go for the summer; and had that not been so, with the glowing visions he had in prospect, Mr. Howard would have said— " No shame to stoupe one's head, more highc to rcare; And much to gain, a litcl for to yield." Shame!—that found no place in my father's mind, with...« less