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Updated: May 3, 2025
No weeds, no dead rose-bushes, no vampire ivy now; but an orderly garden, new planted and watered, and in the midst a small mound heaped with fresh-cut flowers. She had visited the child daily while he lived at Mrs Kelsey's; now she almost daily visited his grave. They dropped on their knees beside it, close as bride and bridegroom on altar steps, as father and mother at the firstborn's cradle.
The joy of this firstborn's birth was, however, very quickly dimmed by the news of the death, only a few days later, of Mr. Browning's mother, to whom he was devotedly attached. Her death was very sudden, and the shock of the reaction completely prostrated him for a long time. The following letters from Mrs. Browning tell how he felt this loss.
On more than one night they talked under the stars, sitting on satin cushions, or leaning on the marble fret-work of the balustrade looking due east to where, so many miles away, flows the blue-green Nile, as it has flowed through the centuries, all unheeding of the passing of mighty kingdoms. And yet had the mother learned nothing of the hurt reflected in her firstborn's eyes.
But on a second thought she held it forth gently in her two hands. "I never meant to hurt 'en, Aun' Mary," she said. "But a firstborn's a firstborn, be we gentle or simple." In the darkness a pair of invisible hands reached forward and took her hostage.
And it was then that there came to her the full explanation of the hurt reflected in her firstborn's eyes. "I shall never marry, dear," very gently replied the man, so fearful was he of causing pain to the woman who had borne him. "I I you see, I cannot." "Cannot, Hugh? But, my dear, what is the matter? You will have to, some day, you know.
She examined each article of his clothing as carefully as would a mother inspecting her firstborn's wardrobe. "He's dressed real nice.... Did you get him?" as James entered the room. "What did he say?" "I did not speak to him, Miss Doane, but to Miss Daphne. She acted rather well rather excited, and said she would be over immediately with her father." "We'll wait in patience, I suppose.
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