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Then again I think of the ten thousand virgins who go mateless about the world, sweet women, with hearts like hidden treasure, awaiting the 'Prince's kiss' that never comes; virgin mothers, whose bosoms shall never know the light warm touch of baby-hands: 'Pale primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength.
"I have been counting my fingers and I got it eleven, but I suppose I must have counted one finger twice," said little Lucy. She gazed reflectively at her little baby-hands. A tiny ring with a blue stone shone on one finger. "I will give you a ring, you know," Jim said, coaxingly. "I have got a ring my father gave me. Did you say it was ten, please, Jim?" "Nine," gasped Jim.
He did not offer to take the two baby-hands again, but did not repulse them, when the little girl laid them on his knee, looking inquiringly, first at him, and then at Elspie. "What does she mean?" said Captain Rothesay. "Puir bairn! I tauld her, when her father was come hame, he wad tak' her in his arms and kiss her." Rothesay looked angrily round, but recollected himself.
The hold she had taken of him was marvelous from the first moment she held out her baby-hands until the last in which he saw her she was his one dream of delight. At first he had visited Ashwood as a matter of duty; but, as time passed on those visits became his dearest pleasures.
"Lulu was standing there," Zoe went on, hesitating, and coloring with embarrassment, "and I saw the baby-hands clutch at her skirts" Again she paused. "And Lulu, giving the tender, toddling thing a savage kick, caused the dreadful catastrophe?" he groaned, turning away his face. "You need not have feared to tell me.
"Ah, Miss Valery, I wish you were a man, and could vote for us!" said he, peering from underneath the baby-hands which made a pointed Norman arch over "Pa's" eyes. "You'd be sure to vote on the right side. Didn't we make a convert of you, Brian and I, years before people talked of Free-trade; long before he went out, and I got married to mamma there?
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