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She possessed with gratitude, she resigned with magnanimity, and she is recompensed by multiplication. Let children never forget the debt they owe to maternal tenderness, a debt which the devoted affection and kindness of a whole life can scarcely discharge.
But now, when he lay on his sick-bed, lingering on from day to day, in total dependence on her care, with a heavy future before him, poor child! for he seemed seriously injured there came into his step-mother's weak, womanly heart a woman's passionate tenderness over all helpless things. She did to him not only her duty, but something more. She learned to love him.
I always knew what suddenly sweetened his smile from one of triumphant pride to one of tenderness. "And the old home, Fitz, something must be done there; we must receive our friends properly." Fitz agreed to everything, offering an amendment here, and a suggestion there, until our host's enthusiasm reached fever heat.
"Rosina!" cried he, in broken and passionate tones, but with nothing of the wild wail that had haunted his voice so long, "forgive! forgive!" Her happy tears bedewed his face. "The punishment has been severe," observed the sculptor. "Even Justice might now forgive; how much more a woman's tenderness!
Rhoda made her relate how this man had seen her first, and how, by untiring diligence, he had followed her up and found her. "He he must love you," said Rhoda; and in proportion as she grew more conscious of her sister's weakness, and with every access of tenderness toward her, she felt that Dahlia must be thought for very much as if she were a child.
"Life and death! do you know what you are saying?" she exclaimed, fixing her eyes on me with such intense earnestness in them that mine fell abashed before their gaze. Then, after a while, she drew my head down against her knees, and spoke with a strange tenderness.
There stands the man, who says he knows: take him at his word. Go to him who says in the might of his eternal tenderness and his human pity COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY-LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT."
The long, cruel battle with misery and hunger had hardened and embittered him, but it had not changed her she had been the same hungry soul to the end, stretching out her arms to him, pleading with him, begging him for love and tenderness. And she had suffered so cruelly she had suffered, such agonies, such infamies ah, God, the memory of them was not to be borne.
He was before her then, as he always would be, and shrinking back, she put up her hand to shut out the memory of his eyes. She could have hated that shallow gayety, she told herself, but for the tenderness that lay beneath it since jest as he might at his own scars, when had he ever made mirth of another's?
They went into the drawing-room and talked about indifferent things. No word of love passed between them; no word, even, that could bear an affectionate significance, and yet every sentence which passed their lips carried a message with it, and was as heavy with unuttered tenderness as a laden bee with honey.
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