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With the unerring instinct of the mother-woman, she realised how Eliot had fought against his love for her, tried to withstand it, utterly distrustful of her sex, and she smiled with a tenderly amused indulgence as she recalled his sudden withdrawals and brusquenesses. His sending down a groom to inquire how she was it had hurt her badly at the time to think he cared so little.
Her name may be anything Mary Elizabeth, but, a woman. This one's name was Katherine. Not like the Katherine of Shakespeare, but the sweetest the tenderest mother-woman the Lord ever gave to man. I see her there in the fire. I've seen her there these many years. Well, she was twin sister to the man who hated me. He hated me for why, I don't know perhaps because he never could influence me.
"And each moment of that unending agony to the mother-woman is repeated to-day in the call, the wail, the everlasting sobbing of the falls. At night the wolves howled up the canyon. 'God of my fathers, keep safe my Morning-child' the mother would implore.
"The music of the chant was most beautiful, but no music in the world of the white man's Tyee could equal that which rang through the heart of Be-be, the Indian mother-woman. "Heart upon heart, lips upon lips, the Morning-child and the mother caught each other in embrace.
I often think how everything combines to torment a generous-hearted, full-blooded, mother-woman whose nature is starved thus.
A woman evading her high calling, must not be conceded the same claim upon men's toil and service as the mother-woman; more particularly Lady Greensleeves must not flaunt it over the housewife.
Still it's none the less maddening that because you women have this incurable mania for marriage, one should be cut off from her sweet companionship, from the inspiration that is to be found in that delectable borderland between friendship and love; and insulted into the bargain by a chit of a mother-woman, with no more brains and imagination than a sparrow!
But Dora did not improve, and the Doctor seemed to be always in the house. 'There's some danger of the thing taking a bad turn, he said; 'I'll come over between three and four in the morning to-morrow. 'Good gracious! said Mrs. Hauksbee. 'He never told me what the turn would be! My education has been horribly neglected; and I have only this foolish mother-woman to fall back upon.
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