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He made them to humor the caprices and regard both reasonable and unreasonable complainings. He made them to bend tenderly over the disturbed and irritated, and fold them to quiet assurance in arms made soft with love; in a word, he made mothers! And, other things being equal, whoever has most maternal tenderness and warm sympathy with the sufferer is the best nurse."
And in a solemn hush we heard the cry of his anguish " O my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee. O Absalom, my son, my son!" We had anxious fathers and mothers and wives and sisters in the Church that day, and it was as though our own sorrows were all gathered up into the old, unhappy, far-off things of which the preacher spoke.
Then she cried a little, kind of, and I said there was no use crying because I was home all right. But anyway, she cried just the same, and hugged me awful tight just as if everything hadn't ended all right. That's a funny thing about mothers. So then I went to bed and I lay awake thinking about everything that happened.
As the children grow up there is a further cause for jealousy, because the mothers of boys are more important than those who have only girl-children. Children cannot respect their mothers if they often see them quarrelling and jealous. Again, there is always a possibility that a husband may divorce his wife.
Scattered here and there the nut-brown Indian maids and mothers; among the last of the race still lingering around their fathers' places and working at the gay embroidery soon to pass away forever.
Doty was on his way to the United States with two of his own and two of Mr. Pohlman's little ones. The other members of their families the mothers and the children, all that was mortal of them were Iying in the Mission cemetery on Kolongsu; and to 'hold the fort, so far as our Mission was concerned, Pohlman was left alone, and well he held it.
Cho's wife had arrived in a cart at the College when her baby was a day old, so rapid is recovery with mothers in those climates.
Poor little Maria was nearly starved, no milk was to be had, and the only food she obtained was when the jailers were bribed to let her father carry her round the village to beg a little nourishment from the nursing mothers. Her moans at night rent the heart of her sick mother, and it is scarcely possible to imagine how either survived.
I lived on the vain hope of the holidays, and meantime every effort was made to drive me into a marriage which my very soul abhorred, the contract being absolutely made by the two ladies, the mothers, without my participation, nay, against my protest. I was to be cajoled or else persecuted into it sold, in fact, that my mother's debts might be paid before her husband's return!
In the evening he wrote with his own hand a tender farewell to the mothers of his many children, eighty-one in number. Presently I shall myself submit to that stern necessity. Farewell! for I go only a little before you."
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