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Her tears burst forth afresh at the sight; she was ashamed and afraid of it; but it moved her to no anger against him. Homeless and fatherless, she forgave him everything; hardly thought that she had need to forgive him, or that she did; but she fled from the idea of him as she had fled from the reality, and he was utterly gone and lost. There was no such Being in the world.
Several benevolent persons stopped to tell him of fatherless young women with whom they were acquainted, and to urge upon him the probability that each of these young women was his long-lost child.
Then an upheaval of indignant feeling swept the impression away. All that he said might be ideally, profoundly true but the red blood of the common life was lacking in every word of it! He ought to be incapable of saying it now. Her passionate question was, how could he argue how could he hold and mark the ethical balance when a woman was suffering, when children were to be left fatherless?
"I've never spoken of it before because it's your business, not mine," continued the girl. I wouldn't have spoken now, but when you referred to your loneliness I thought perhaps you didn't realize the cause of it." Mr. Barrett walked on in silent misery. "Poor little motherless things!" said Miss Lindsay, softly. "Motherless and fatherless." "Better for them," said Mr.
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
Do we want the generous philanthropist there the man who loves justice for its own sake the man of strong natural powers, rendered stronger and clearer by honest principles? or the narrow-minded timeserver the man who would sacrifice any thing, even the liberties of his country, for a selfish end the legal oppressor of the widow and the fatherless?
We beseech Thee also, O Lord, of Thy infinite goodness to remember the good actions of this Thy servant; that the naked she hath clothed, the hungry she hath fed, the sick and the fatherless whom she hath relieved, may be reckoned according to Thy gracious promise, as if they had been done unto Thee.
"You dear little fatherless children," she whispered, throwing her arms around them both, and dropping tears and kisses on their faces. "O, I can't, I can't bear it," cried Grace; "my own dear papa, that I love best of any one in all the world!" Horace ran to his mother, and throwing himself on the bed beside her, buried his face in the pillows. "O, ma! I reckon 'tisn't true.
It was an act of God, a thunderbolt out of the sky, which had taken a husband from her, and might soon make her a widow and her children fatherless. She knew nothing of its causes and purposes, and thought of the Russians as a gigantic nation of savages, heathens who had never been converted, and who would eat up German homes if the good Lord and the brave German soldiers did not stop them.
Le Despenser was a Lollard house by tradition and inheritance. No portrait known; character imaginary. He was left fatherless when only two years old, November 11th, 1375.
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