She did not change when she owned upon their Urgence that the gaunt man whom they glimpsed around the corners of the house was her husband, and the three lank boys with him were her sons; that the children whose faces watched them through the writhing window panes were her two little girls; that the urchin who stood shyly twisted, all but his white head and sunburned face, into her dress and glanced at them with a mocking blue eye, was her youngest, and that he was three years old.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
He felt, as the time went by, that she had not written of her own impulse, but at her daughter's Urgence, and that it was this poor creature whose trust he had paltered with.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
To this end his new wife's Urgence was perhaps not wanting.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
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