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Wardour, who, for all her severity, was not without a good- sized heart, and whoso conscience had spoken to her in regard of Letty far oftener than any torture would have made her allow, was touched with compassion at sight of her worn and sad look; and, granting to herself that the poor thing had been punished enough, even for her want of respect to the house of Thornwick, broke down a little, though with well-preserved dignity, and took the wandering ewe-lamb to her bosom.
But there was another fact, in the absence of which he would have had far more hesitation in seeking for his ewe-lamb the protection of sheep, the guardians of whose spiritual fold had but too often proved wolves in sheep-dogs' clothing: within the last few days the news had reached him that an old friend named Bayly, a true man, a priest of the English church and a doctor of divinity, had taken up his abode in Raglan castle as one of the household chaplain indeed, as report would have it, though that was hard of belief, save indeed it were for the sake of the protestants within its walls.
When my poor little ewe-lamb went out into the world, I did not fear any shearing he might encounter in America. I don't mind my own countrymen. I like them, but I am not afraid of them. Two elements go to make up a book: matter and manner. The former, of course, is its author's own. He maintains it against all comers. Opposition does not terrify him, for it is a mere difference of opinion.
And now like the story in the Old Testament, the poor relation has one ewe-lamb which is all her joy, and the rich man who has flocks covets the ewe-lamb and steals it without warning, without asking. Adeline has meanly robbed me of my happiness! Adeline! Adeline! I will see you in the mire, and sunk lower than myself! And Hortense I loved her, and she has cheated me. The Baron.
"By George!" he said, stopping short, "you told me you had a client at last, eh, Mrs. Tarbell?" "Yes," said Mrs. Tarbell coldly. "Why, bless my soul! It's your first client, is it not? And what kind of a case has your ewe-lamb brought you? Come, tell me about it. I did not properly appreciate the communication." And he went over to Mrs.
And this girl, his ewe-lamb, his all, was she fair? had she blue eyes like my mother, or a high Roman nose and beetle brows like Captain Roland?
His mother's house was big, and lonely, and empty; and he flushed as he thought of the "one ewe-lamb" he coveted out of Friend Barton's rugged pastures.
Gout killed 'en. I went to his buryin'; such a stretch of experience does a young man get by time he reaches my age. God bless your heart alive, I can mind when they were hung for forgery!" "Who were hung?" "People," he answered vaguely; "and young Willie Pinsent." "This woman's son?" "Ay, her son her ewe-lamb of a child. 'Tis very seldom brought up agen her now, poor soul!
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