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Updated: July 21, 2025
More frequently a little baby-face had looked up from the river with a smile, and sent her away to the well-known street where she would sit in the familiar door-step watching the shadows on the window-blind until cold and sorrow drove her to the gin-palace to seek for the miserable comfort to be found there.
Indeed I did not; the sweet baby-face full of glee was irresistible; so was the pat-pat of the two dimpled hands on her mother's shoulders. With a longing all women can understand, I held out my own arms. "I wonder if she will come to me?" said I. But though I got a smile, the little hands closed still more tightly round the mother's neck.
There's a great difference in her air, I'll assure you, since I saw her last. Well, child, said she, sneeringly, how dost find thyself? Thou'rt mightily come on, of late! I hear strange reports about thee! Thou'rt almost got into fool's paradise, I doubt! And wilt find thyself terribly mistaken in a little while, if thou thinkest my brother will disgrace his family, to humour thy baby-face!
He leaned a bit farther forward then, and pulling his coat partly open, he showed me a detective's badge. And the other man quickly did the same. I sat back in my chair. The fat star on the stage, with her big mouth and big baby-face, was doing a cake-walk up and down close to the footlights, yelling the chorus of her song.
Mother would like me this morning. I am German-looking to-day, pinky red and yellow hair. But I haven't got a German expression and I don't smile like a German.... She smiled.... Silly, baby-face! Doll! Never mind! I look jolly. She looked gravely into her eyes.... There's something about my expression." Her face grew wistful. "It isn't vain to like it. It's something. It isn't me.
"You have got money, they say; try it on with Brown." "I will. Oh you darling. What is the matter?" For Baby-face was beginning to whimper. "Oh, nothing, sir; only you are so glad to go; and we shall be sorry to part with you: but you won't care for that oh! oh! oh!" "What, do you think I shall forget you and your kindness?
"I won't have you love another," she cried. "I want all your love all! What's that baby-face to you, compared to your mother? I have the best right to you. I won't give you up." Chester realized that there was no arguing with such a mood. He walked on, resolved to set the matter aside until she might be more reasonable. But Thyra would not have it so.
The fat and rounded limbs grew thin and weak, and we all felt that little Charley would soon be taken from us. The same sweet smile lingered about his mouth, although pain and suffering had saddened that baby-face. He no longer tottered about the floor, but was confined constantly to his bed. Not there even was he to remain more than a few short weeks.
It might be better for them that they should suffer; nevertheless, if they could be sure of heaven and at the same time not suffer too badly he would be glad. Suddenly then, across the breakfast-table, a picture drove itself in front of him a picture of Joan with her baby-face, struggling in the water.... She screamed; she tried to catch on to the side of a boat with her hand.
He'd sit on the window-sill and watch the children, and cry to go out. But he doesn't mind now." He had a chair and a cushion to himself, and looked very contented. They went upstairs to see the old ladies. Aunt Clem had a round, full, baby-face, for all she was so old. Nora said she was almost ninety. Aunt Patty was twenty years younger, quite brisk and bright, with wonderful blue eyes.
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