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Updated: July 29, 2025
I love my parents my foster-parents dearly. I owe them everything. Mother poor, dear mother! could not have loved me better or cared for me more faithfully had I been her own child. Yet I am ashamed to say it I always felt that I was not like them, that there was a subtle difference between us.
The wife said no more; and in truth her heart yearned over the little creatures. Somehow or other food was never lacking in the hut, and the children grew up and were so good and gentle that, in time, their foster-parents loved them as well or better than their own, who were quarrelsome and envious.
This example at least shows that neuropathic parents have nearer ways than inheritance by which they can transfer their disturbances to their children. *Infantile Fear.* The children themselves behave from their early childhood as if their attachment to their foster-parents were of the nature of sexual love.
She teased her bridegroom, her foster-parents, and even the priest, whom she had just now revered so highly, with all sorts of childish tricks; but when the ancient dame was about to reprove her too frolicsome spirit, the knight, in a few words, imposed silence upon her by speaking of Undine as his wife.
But he was conscious of his innocence, and as there was no chance of clearing himself at present he submitted to his fate. The party landed just at the place where Sir Bugge's castle had stood, and where Jurgen had walked with his foster-parents after the burial feast, during the four happiest days of his childhood.
May herself, however, now felt she ought not longer to conceal the fact from him. It could not fail to be a satisfaction to him, as both the ladies and her foster-parents were fully convinced that she was of gentle birth. She was on the point of telling him when Susan hurried up with the information that Lady Castleton's carriage had just driven to the door.
She had gone forward with a boy on either side of her, and Susan walking backwards in front, all telling the story of a cuckoo, or gowk, as Sara called it in Purday's language, which they had found in a water-wagtail's nest in a heap of stones; how it sat up, constantly gaping with its huge mouth, while the poor little foster-parents toiled to their utmost to keep it supplied with caterpillars, and the last time it was seen, when full-fledged, were trying to lure it to come out of the nest by holding up green palmers at some little distance before it.
They had worn themselves to get provision for the terrible and fascinating creature who had remained in their nest. When the time came for him to make his flight he could not get his body through the little opening. Yesterday he had begun to try. The two foster-parents flew to him again and again with food. But now their own nesting place had become strange to them.
The priest was in the cottage. Why should he not marry the beautiful maiden without delay? He spoke a few words to Undine, then drawing her gently toward the priest he said, 'Father, you see before you the maiden whom I love, whom, if her foster-parents are willing, I would wed this very day. The priest turned to the fisherman and his wife. 'You hear the words of the noble knight, he said.
On my return I learned that the good people had both been guillotined, and find the poor boy, who before had been at least sound in body, utterly neglected, and living on the sympathy of the people who had taken him on the death of his foster-parents.
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