The end of our stay at Ferrara was now in sight, and our last days were full of partings.

But Bellew had seen the stricken look in his eyes, therefore he took Small Porges in the circle of his big arm, and holding him thus, explained to him how that in this great world each of us must walk his appointed way, and that there must, and always will be, partings, but that also there must and always shall be, meetings: "

And then it was heartrending to witness their brief partings.

This feeling was expressed with his usual frankness and simplicity, when in the course of an address delivered at Dunfermline, some months before his departure, after referring to former partings, uniformly followed by happy meetings, he said: [Sidenote: Forebodings.]

'Life is full of partings,' Mary said to herself, as she watched the last glimpse of the dogcart between the trees down in the road below, 'but this one is to be very short, thank God.'

'All such partings are hard, and your grandmother's life has been so lonely and joyless that the memory of it must always have a touch of pain.

As for the childreneven when you would think that they were old enough to understand the meaning of these partings they make no sign, though they seem to understand all the rest of it well enough.

And now I was to rehabilitate him before the world, and accordingly all preparations were made for my departure from Knowl; and at last the morning camea day of partings, a day of novelty, and regrets.

There are also reconciliations which take place after partings, which are not so alternate and transitory.

There were many sad partings that day; and many parted never to meet again.

Monmouth no doubt intended to move that night, and made open preparation for it, and the partings so pathetically described may have, therefore, taken place, and the rather because the intended movement was to leave that part of the country altogethernot to meet the King's troops, but to endeavour to escape them by a forced march across the Avon and into Gloucestershire.

"The partings and the troubles that these Germans have caused ought to hang like mill-stones round their necks for ever," said Cousin Gustus.

More partings? Lewis.

Mark was beginning to realize that for him, the life of a Starman would be marked with frequent partings and sorrows.

She told me, but the reason of the separation I have forgotten in the many similar reasons for separations and partings which have since been confided to me.

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

Thence comes our exaltation, and our wild longing to hold the moment for ever; for, while it is with us, we have literally escaped from the everyday earth, and have found the way into some other dimension of being, and its passing means our sad return to the prison-house of Time, the place of meetings and partings, of distance and death.

(So it is so many partings happen.)

There would be other partings, you see, other interests drawing me away.

"And behold these shall come from far, and lo, these from the north, and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim." "Oh then what raptured greetings, What knitting severed friendships up, Where partings are no more.

He and I had had for years a standing game of "tag" at all our partings, and he had vowed to send me "tagged" to Europe.

After Suez he would have blossomed into thin clothes and long talks, but the bitter spring chill nipped him, as the thought of partings just accomplished and work just ahead chilled the Anglo-Indian contingent.

Began on partings, and went on a still hunt through history and religion for them.

She told me, but the reason of the separation I have forgotten in the many similar reasons for separations and partings which have since been confided to me.

For to my heart is given, The cheering hope, that soon, where pain And partings are unknown, we'll meet again In yonder heaven.