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It was Sara, who had risen with the first streak of dawn, and snatching a hurried breakfast had left her foster-daughter asleep. She had lifted the lid of the coffer and had taken out the best half of her scarlet mantle, leaving the worn and faded half hanging Over the spinning wheel. "Morva would understand," she thought, "and would wash it and lay it away in the coffer until her return."
On the blue waters of Lake Darvra dwell Finola, Aed, Fiacra, and Conn, and thence come I that I may avenge their doom. A silence as the silence of death fell upon the three, and all was still save that Eva trembled greatly. But ere long Bove Derg spake. Fierce and angry did he look, as, high above his foster-daughter, he held his magic wand. Awful was his voice as he pronounced her doom.
"I dare say he is a man who is haunted by gloomy forebodings and therefore can not work steadily. What kind of a father would that be for the girl?" While Ola was talking the fisherman started up the strand. "Where are you going?" queried the Lapp. "I'm going to have a look at your foster-daughter, Ola." "Good!" said the Lapp. "Come along and meet her.
When the Lord Abbot had suddenly and superciliously vanished from the eyes of his expectant vassals, the Sub-Prior made amends for the negligence of his principal, by the kind and affectionate greeting which he gave to all the members of the family, but especially to Dame Elspeth, her foster-daughter, and her son Edward. "Where," he even condescended to inquire, "is that naughty Nimrod, Halbert?
Yet there were times when he was wild to kiss the rosy, dimpling mouth, to press the soft cheek, to hold the pliant figure in his arms. It was but right that he should ask M. Destournier for his foster-daughter. To lose her! Ah, how could he give her up? "Would you come to Quebec?" "My interests are at Tadoussac. And there are the fisheries at the islands growing more profitable.
Rather than give up his share of the loot, he chose to risk the great danger to his little foster-daughter. The realization that Slade was even more of a criminal than the moonshining and bootlegging had indicated, quickened Lennon's compassion for the girl. She was so artless and clinging and helpless He put his free arm about her quivering shoulders.
Nevertheless, he thought it honest to warn the Earl that Swanhild was apart from other women. "Thou dost great honour, earl, to my foster-daughter and my house," he said. "Still, it behoves me to move gently in this matter. Swanhild is fair, and she shall not go hence a wife undowered.
The choice is all the more important because her foster-child should have no other guardian, just as he should have no teacher but his tutor. This was the custom of the ancients, who talked less but acted more wisely than we. The nurse never left her foster-daughter; this is why the nurse is the confidante in most of their plays.
Then the king called a beautiful maiden to him, his foster-daughter, and said, 'Lady, bring thou this wheaten cake and this dish of salmon to the illustrious poet, and serve him thyself. So the maiden went. But when Seanchan saw her he asked: 'Who sent thee hither, and why hast thou brought me food?
"My new little foster-daughter," said Mrs. Harold, kissing the velvety cheeks. "'It's beauty, truly blent, whose red and white, Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Keep it so it needs no aid we shall learn to know each other better. You will come again yes, often and where I can help, count upon me always? And now I'll play maid."
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