The uninvited guest Free and easy manners Salutary jokes A prodigal son Exit of the glutton A sudden change in fortune Danger of a visit to poor relations Plucking of a prosperous man A vagabond toilet A substitute for the very fine horse Hard travelling The uninvited guest and the patriarchal colt A beggar on horseback A catastrophe Exit of the merry vagabond
He had been a kind of prodigal son in his native village; living a loose, heedless life, and disregarding the precepts and imperative commands of the chiefs.
"Have you never thought of marrying your
prodigal son Anatole?" she asked.
Maggie actually forgot that she had any special cause of sadness this morning, as she stood on a chair to look at a remarkable series of pictures representing the
Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison, except that, as might have been expected from his defective moral character, he had not, like that accomplished hero, the taste and strength of mind to dispense with a wig.
Leaving the ground with the air of a father mourning over some
prodigal son, he encountered Mr Jacob Dodson, of Manchester.
"I may say, steward," the Ancient Mariner resumed, "that I was born with a silver spoon that melted in my mouth and left me a proper
prodigal son. Also, that I was born with a back-bone of pride that would not melt.
The wicked wolf that for a half a day had paralyzed London and set all the children in town shivering in their shoes, was there in a sort of penitent mood, and was received and petted like a sort of vulpine
prodigal son. Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender solicitude, and when he had finished with his penitent said,
If you had just run away and come back again with a headache, I'd have treated you like the
Prodigal Son. But there are some things which are too much, and bringing a perfect stranger back with you for an indefinite period is one of them.
Occasionally, some youth among them who has over- eaten himself, or has been worried by dogs, trots shrinkingly homeward, like a
prodigal son: but this is a rare case: perfect self-possession and self-reliance, and immovable composure, being their foremost attributes.
No poor, simple, virtuous body was ever cajoled by the attentions of an electioneering politician with more ease than Aunt Chloe was won over by Master Sam's suavities; and if he had been the
prodigal son himself, he could not have been overwhelmed with more maternal bountifulness; and he soon found himself seated, happy and glorious, over a large tin pan, containing a sort of olla podrida of all that had appeared on the table for two or three days past.
"Once it was the Puritan Fathers who left our coasts," he is recorded to have said; "nowadays it is our
Prodigal Sons."
There, Civilization, acting through the subtle medium of the Saucepan, recovered its hold on them; and the admiral's two
prodigal sons, when they saw the covers removed, watered at the mouth as copiously as ever.