"I shall not shrink even here, Reuben
Bourne," interrupted Malvin.
To Life's appointed
bourne: And alien tears will fill for him
On October eighteenth, Patrick Grayfur departed for that
bourne whence no traveller returns.
All these matters were forgotten in the joy at seeing the first landmarks of the Columbia, that river which formed the
bourne of the expedition.
Marriage, which has been the
bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness.
I could only think of the
bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting
bourne? In such vault I had been told did Mr.
Nigh two months had Alleyne Edricson been in Castle Twynham--months which were fated to turn the whole current of his life, to divert it from that dark and lonely
bourne towards which it tended, and to guide it into freer and more sunlit channels.
I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly
bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.
At Weybridge, the Wey (a pretty little stream, navigable for small boats up to Guildford, and one which I have always been making up my mind to explore, and never have), the
Bourne, and the Basingstoke Canal all enter the Thames together.
"That desire which comes to us all at times--`to sail beyond the
bourne of sunset'--must be very imperious when it is born in you.
Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old
Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn.