Certain it is, in stormy weather, from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill, and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have weathered storms quite as real, — long sickness, pinching poverty, and mayhap, in some cases, that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic, a disinclination to regular work; and their present lot is one of storms, — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors, and the wintry blasts without; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan.
Certain it is, in stormy weather, from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill, and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have predicted the coming storm quite as real, — long sickness, pinching poverty, and mayhap, in some cases, that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic, a disinclination to regular work; and their present lot is one of storms, — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors, and the wintry blasts without; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan.