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And realising that from the thighs to the buttocks, his person was here green, there purple, here whole, there broken, and that there was, in fact, not the least bit, which had not sustained some injury, she of a sudden burst out in bitter lamentations for her offspring's wretched lot in life.
And now, in pity to an afflicted parent, hear for a while his offspring's Roscian capabilities. I abhor scene-shifters; at least, their province lies more among pantomimes, farces, and comedies, than in the region of the solemn tragic muse; her incidents should rather partake of the sculpture-like dignity of tableaux.
A cold perspiration broke on him as he wrestled with that grim temptation. Valerie was his; she belonged to him by the right of dangers shared; never had mother in her labours been nearer death for the offspring's sake than had he for Valerie during the days that were sped and the hours that were but gone. She belonged to him by the title of those dangers he had been through.
Grey; "all good boys go to school;" and in the plenitude of a mother's love she tried to make her offspring's hair curl. "I won't have my hair curl, mamma; the boys will laugh at me," rebawled the beauty. "Now who could have told the child that?" monologised mamma, with all a mamma's admiration. "Charles Appleyard told me so; his hair curled, and the boys called him girl.
Her jar provides me with an Ichneumon possessed of the inoculating larding- pin: a Cryptus who, as a grub, had fed on Spiders' eggs. Nothing but empty shells was left inside the central keg; the germs were completely exterminated. There are other Ichneumon-flies, moreover, addicted to robbing Spiders' nests; a basket of fresh eggs is their offspring's regular food.
His eyes, however, had the fondness of a doting parent who takes a secret pride in his offspring's naughtiness as he watched Mary. He did not like the stranger, anyhow, and the incident of the photograph still rankled. "The Smart Alec," he muttered, grinning, "it won't hurt him." The lamb backed off a little, made a run, and with its four feet bunched, landed in the pit of the stranger's stomach.
Park's father died before his son had won that renown which so honourably distinguishes his name, though not without the satisfaction of witnessing a fair promise of his future distinction; but his mother, after hearing with much pride of her offspring's early achievements, had to lament his untimely fate; consoled, however, by the recollection of his unblemished character, and virtuous conduct, and by the thought of the legacy of fame which he had bequeathed, not to his family alone, but to his country.
If so, here was the very mount for him. None of your frisky, showy, first-hand young brutes, on which no fond parent ought to risk his offspring's bones; but a sound, steady-going, well-mannered old hack with never a spark of vice in him! Such was the message that I read in the glassy eye fixed on me. The nostril of faded scarlet seemed for a moment to dilate and quiver.
She had been drinking for four hours, and, when she attempted to illustrate her theory of the waltz, she sent drinkers and drink flying as though her offspring's battalion had charged.
Did they realize what it meant to shatter that hallowed bond, to deprive the parent of her offspring's help and consolation the child of its mother's fostering care? Let them consider the lives of all t hose great men of the past who were known to have had mothers Themistocles, Dante, Virgil, Peter the Hermit and Madame de Maintenon why had they achieved distinction in the world?
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