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Wolf's foster father, the organist Stenzel, who was closely connected with his uncle, had rendered this step easier for the deserted widow by receiving the little boy in his childless home. Ursel must give him more minute particulars concerning all these things.
"Place him privately, dear Madame Marillac, under skillful and kind control and let me, do let me, open the pocketbook again." The widow steadily refused even to look at the pocketbook. "Perhaps," Stella persisted, "you don't know of a private asylum that would satisfy you?" "My dear, I do know of such a place! The good doctor who attended my husband in his last illness told me of it.
A man in this receptive mood is not asked as a rule to wait long for the needful response; but Brendon was old-fashioned and the women born of the war attracted him not at all. He recognized their fine qualities and often their distinction of mind; yet his ideal struck backward to another and earlier type the type of his own mother who, as a widow, had kept house for him until her death.
The magistrate felt called upon to investigate the case further, and received the following details from the policeman: The mother of the two boys was the widow of an ex-soldier, afterwards policeman, and had had a very hard time since the death of her husband, to provide for her nine children. She lived at No. 2 Pool's Place, Quaker Court, Spitalfields, in the utmost poverty.
Not a very lucrative business, I should think. Has his widow any resources of her own?" "My purse is hers!" "Very generous, I am sure! Even the humblest lodgings are dear in this neighbourhood. However with your assistance your old servant may be able to live somewhere near you." Having settled the question of Teresa's life in London in this way, Mrs.
He had seen how very common it is for a rich man, married late in life, to leave everything to a young widow and her children by her former marriage, when once attached to the latter; and he sensibly felt that he himself had but a slight hold over Templeton by the chain of the affections.
Then came the suitors, the Kirsten girls with their friends, the pretty young widow, and often the good Kummerfelden, who took great delight in listening to the irrational chatter of the amorous youths. "These men-creatures are enough to drive one mad when they're in love," she said once to the Raven-mother.
The famous architect, François Mansard, was employed by her to extend the Palais Royal as it was then called, which in 1652 was occupied by Henrietta Maria, Charles I.'s widow, whose court ill repaid the hospitality of France by acts of Vandalism.
"Povl do an' play, do an' play!" he said over and over again. "He wants to go out and play," said Ditte, looking questioningly at her father. "Then maybe he's better already," broke out Lars Peter cheerily. "Let him go if he wants to." Ditte dressed him, but he drooped like a withered flower, and she put him to bed again. "Shall I fetch Lars Jensen's widow?" she asked.
The next morning was so fine that there was no difficulty about Hugh's walking the short distance to the widow Murray's; and there, for three mornings, did the boys work diligently, till the room was papered, and two cupboards into the bargain.
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