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"Barb, I got a letter from Fair last night. You did too, didn't you?" "Yes, sir." "He'll be here next week. He says he can't stop with us this time." Barbara was silent, and felt the shy, care-taking glance of her maid. Garnet spoke again, in the guarded tone she knew so well. "I reckon you understand he's only coming to see if he'll take stock in this land company we're getting up, don't you?"
At last "Peep, peep, peep," began to be heard in the nest, and one little downy head after another poked forth from under the feathers, surveying the world with round, bright, winking eyes; and gradually the brood were hatched, and Mrs. Feathertop arose, a proud and happy mother, with all the bustling, scratching, care-taking instincts of family-life warm within her breast.
The children were delighted and actually grew happy and rosy over their digging and watering and care-taking. Gradually all sorts of curious things happened. People who were growing Blue Flowers began to keep the ground around about them in order. They did not like to see bits of paper and rubbish lying about, so they cleared them away.
A frail, slender, delicate girl of thirteen, she carried a heart prematurely old with the most distressing responsibility of mature life. Her love for Moses had always had in it a large admixture of that maternal and care-taking element which, in some shape or other, qualities the affection of woman to man.
Sudden and brilliant ideas came more seldom to Miss Bibby than to the children she was "care-taking." But undoubtedly one seized her now. The author himself was plainly either out, pacing a mountain top as he worked out his ideas, or else shut up securely in his study. What if one threw oneself on the mercy of the stout, kindly-faced lady over there and implored her aid in the delicate task!
"I see that you are not in favor of the match," replied Mr. Wellington, much amused over his wife's earnestness. "No, Will; I confess I am not," she said, gravely. "I knew Amos Palmer's first wife, and she was a devoted, care-taking, conscientious woman, never sparing herself when she could add to the comfort and happiness of her family.
'Make Aubrey into the mere shame-faced, sister-hating, commonplace creature that the collective boy thinks it due to himself to be in society, said Ethel, 'and me from an enjoying sister, into an elderly, care-taking, despised spinster a burden to myself and the boys. 'But why, Ethel, can't you enjoy yourself!
Would I come some evening when there was no crowd or, better yet, dine with him and my friend de Shay, whose personality appeared to be about as agreeable to him as his own. He was sorry he could not give me more attention now. Those cracked shoes were in my mind, I suppose. He seemed to live among great things, but in no niggardly, parsimonious or care-taking way.
Ah never 'lowed to like anybody's much's Miss Sydney, but Mrs. Baron's jus' splendid." With a woman's care-taking instinct, she began to gather together the dishes on the table and prepare them for washing. "No, let me," she said, in response to von Rittenheim's objection.
When we compare the state of mind of the hunter with that of the care-taking soil-tiller, we see the vast scope and influence which this work of domestication has effected in our kind. To it perhaps more than to any other cause we must attribute the civilizable and the civilized state of mind.
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