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Then, too, to witness the utilization of the baby-things that were mere cogs in the machinery of Crothers' business, hurt the mother-heart of the girl cruelly.
Ere the frosts of autumn had robbed her garden of its glory, blighting sorrow had fallen upon her tender mother-heart in the death of a darling baby girl. Beneath this blow the health of sweet "Helen," always frail, succumbed, and her home became thenceforth as a living tomb, in which the few who ever saw her again trod softly and spoke in hushed voices.
Shadowy and vague they were but vaguely shadowed were thoughts like these in Janet's mind, as she stood half-stunned, regarding for one moment motionless the prostrate child and his wrongs. The next she lifted him in her arms, and holding him tenderly to her mother-heart, carried him into the house, murmuring over him dove-like sounds of pity and endearment mingled with indignation.
And so while straying animals were slowly recovered, while the camp was set in order, while the dead were laid with simple reverence in un-coffined graves, and the sick were crudely ministered to, while Beverly grew feverish and his arrow wound became a festering sore, and Rex Krane, master of the company, cared for every thing and everybody with that big mother-heart of his Jondo and Bill Banney pushed alone across the desolate plains toward where the Smoky Hills wrapped in their dim gray-blue mist mark the low watershed that rims the western valley of the Kaw.
"For the womanhood of a dominant people has not accomplished all its labour when it has borne its children and fed them at its breast: there cries to it also from over seas and across continents the voice of the child-peoples 'Mother-heart, stand for us! It would be better for you that your wombs should be barren and that your race should die out; than that you should listen, and give no answer."
Morrison withdrew his hand from hers withdrew it sharply flung himself into a seat beside the table, and began to scribble on the back of Virgie's rumpled pass; while the child stood watching, trusting, with the simple trust of her little mother-heart. In a moment or two, the troopers came hurrying in, with Corporal Dudley in the lead.
A great wave of pity surged out from the deep mother-heart that throbbed against her own. The deep, melodious voice answered with one word: "No." Amazement sat on the uplifted, woebegone face of the girl. The sorrowful eyes questioned the Mother's incredulously. "You mean that you " She folded the slight figure to her.
Not for them the plenty of guns and shells that now at least lessens the hideous sacrifice that war demands; not for them the many protective devices and safeguards that the war itself has developed. Their young bodies their precious lives paid the price. And in the Mother-heart of England they lie gathered and secure for ever. But let me go a little further with the new War Office facts.
You were always patient with me. Pray God to forgive me, for I'm going fast. If He's like you I won't fear Him." Mrs. Jocelyn would have fallen on her child if Roger had not caught her and placed her gently on the lounge, where she lay with dry, tearless eyes and all the yearnings of the mother-heart in her wan face. Belle's eyes followed her wistfully, then turned to Mildred.
Her consciousness of this danger in her own case made her extremely alive to the risks of an undesirable connection especially if it were a marriage to any public man. At the same time the mother-heart in her was stirred. The aching of this jealousy gave her face for a moment almost a spiritual expression, then passed away into impatience. Why should he marry her? Things could be arranged.
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