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Updated: September 2, 2025
She was looking out of the window, not seeing the trees in the park, nor the glimpses of the hills beyond, but thinking how pleasant it would be to have a husband once more; some one who would work while she sate at her elegant ease in a prettily-furnished drawing-room; and she was rapidly investing this imaginary bread-winner with the form and features of the country surgeon, when there was a slight tap at the door, and almost before she could rise, the object of her thoughts came in.
"Well, what's the matter?" asked Offitt. "Have you heered about Brother Bowersox?" "Never mind the brothering that's played out. What is there about Bowersox?" "He's dangerous; they don't think he'll live through the night." "Well, what of it?" This was not encouraging, but the poor Bread-winner ventured to say, "I thought some of the Brothers " But Offitt closed the subject by a brutal laugh.
That was his little private grievance with Fate. Garth came of a family of sporting and military traditions, which he had inherited in full force. These, in the young bread-winner of the city, had had to be largely repressed; but he had found a certain outlet in joining a militia regiment, in which he had at length been elected an officer.
She was extremely pleased to have this evidence of Finn's forethoughtfulness as a bread-winner. Instinct told her the value and importance of this quality in a mate. And while she carefully dressed the wound in her lord's groin that night, Black-tip and his friends, with much chop-licking, spread abroad the story of their glorious hunting and of Finn's might as a killer.
On the morning of the first day in which he was permitted to leave the house he made his way to Pepeeta's new quarters. "And so this is to be her home," he said with a shudder as he looked up to the attic window. Every day this pale young man was seen, by the curious neighbors, hovering about the place. As for the object of his love and solicitude, she began at once to be a bread-winner.
For the home of eight children whom they rob of their mother? For the poor whom they daily threaten to deprive of their bread-winner?" "For them too, there is a merciful God," interrupted dame Hannah who had just come into the room.
"Well, I got a little work here and a little there; but still I was a burden at home rather than a bread-winner; and, at the closing-in of the winter, was very glad to hear of a place at two leagues' distance, where work, they said, was to be had. Off I set, one morning, to find it, but missed my way, somehow, until it was night-time before I arrived.
He could not help answering, in the tone that gave courtesy to almost any words, 'I am afraid it does not answer for the wife to be the bread-winner. 'Then you doubt my writing being worth anything? she asked, in a hurt tone of humility.
The stern duty she had had to do had been healthful, albeit she had good cause to fear for the future; for, with her father, the household would lose the bread-winner. It was an unspeakable joy to me to be able to assure her of Herdegen's faithful love, and to repeat to her the many kind words he had spoken concerning her.
Victor's ears were still ringing with the deadly shriek that had burst from Valle's wife when she heard the dreadful news just as he and his party galloped out of the camp. He knew also that the dead hunter left several young children to be pinched by dire poverty in future years for want of their natural bread-winner.
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