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Updated: May 24, 2025
'Alisa Bennett, feeble-minded, aged ten or twelve years. 'Atlantic and Pacific Simonson, twins, aged four years. The man of statistics might seek in vain for some principle of attraction or cohesion between these independent elements; but no one who knew Mrs. Grubb would have been astonished at the sort of family that had gathered itself about her.
But as animals are said to have an eye for spirits, children have an eye for souls, which is far rarer than an eye for beautiful surfaces. Mr. Grubb began by loathing Alisa, then patiently suffered her, then pitied, then respected, then loved her. Mrs. Grubb seldom saw her, and objected to nothing by which she herself was relieved of care.
And when the stricken soul had fled from her frail body, they who came to prepare her for the grave looked at her face and found it shining with hope. It was thus that poor little Alisa Bennett assumed maternal responsibilities at the age of ten, and gained her sobriquet of 'Marm Lisa. She grew more human, more tractable, under Mr.
There was no special reason for this sentiment, but then Alisa Bennett was not quite a reasonable being. Mr. Grubb had never been adored before in his life; and to say the truth, his personality was not winning. He had a pink, bald head, pale blue eyes, with blond tufts for eyebrows, and a pointed beard dripping from his chin, which tended to make him look rather like an invalid goat.
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