Little Women: Sense of Longing

“But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the `Heimweh’, or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart. Once, when he remembered Jo as she sat with the little child in her lap and that new softness in her face, he leaned his head on his hands a minute, and then roamed about the room, as if in search of something that he could not find.