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And lo! when Madame Karl brought Mary Bridget to Frank Schuber's house, and Eva Schuber, who every day for weeks had bathed and dressed her godchild on the ship, took this stranger into another room apart and alone, there were the birth-marks of the lost Salome. This incontestable evidence the friends of Salome were able to furnish, but the defense called in question the genuineness of the marks.
Joe explained to their wondering companions that these streaks of white hair were their birth-marks, but Slippery, afraid that these conspicuous freaks of nature would draw too much attention to their young comrades, collected some sprigs of sage, and after he had pounded the same to a pulp between some stones, rubbed it into the white hair upon the boy's heads, with the result that within a few moments they were dyed to almost the same shade as the rest of their scalps.
Herself the mother of the young Bourbon, misallied with one of the greatest families of Europe, staking her fortune on a Royalist plot, and yet with so instinctive a knowledge of European politics as to know that any removal of the hereditary birth-marks of the Prince would forfeit for him the sympathy of the French populace. The Countess resumed her tiara. She left. The secretary re-entered.
"And he can't very well go around asking all the girls he meets if they have peculiar birth-marks," commented Mollie. "Well, I hardly know why I told you my troubles," said the young man, "but " "Why shouldn't you?" asked Betty, pleasantly. "We are interested in you, of course, ever since " "That five hundred dollar bill you thought was gone for good," added Amy.
According to Weismann, the individual parts and characteristics of the organism are represented in the germ-plasm, not in finished form, but as “determinants” in a definite system which is itself the directing principle in the building up of the bodily system, and with definite characteristics, which determine the peculiarities of the individual organs and parts, down to scales, hairs, skin-spots, and birth-marks.
But at the moment I had no suspicion that John Steele's pilgrimage to Paris could have been for the purpose of consulting, " "An eminent specialist in the line of removing birth-marks," glancing at the slip of paper, "or other disfigurements " "Such as I described to your lordship from the book that day in the office," murmured the police agent.
We all have our birth-marks, traits of character, which may be temporarily suppressed, or relegated to the background, but which cannot be eradicated and are certain to reappear at unguarded moments, or on exceptional occasions. Education and culture can do much to soften and temper the disposition, but the original material remains the same.
We have to remember, however, that modifications may be caused during development in the uterus, as, for example, birth-marks on the skin, and these would not be due to peculiarities in the constitution of the ovum.
Another curious fact associated with pregnancy is the apparent influence of the emotions of the mother on the child in utero. Every one knows of the popular explanation of many birth-marks, their supposed resemblance to some animal or object seen by the mother during pregnancy, etc. The truth of maternal impressions, however, seems to be more firmly established by facts of a substantial nature.
And now "But the proof does not stop at mere family resemblance." He is coming to the matter of the birth-marks. He calls them "evidence which is not impeached." He turns the page again, and begins at the top to meet the argument of Grymes from the old Spanish Partidas.
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