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Updated: September 29, 2025
Will you tell me what happened to you after being taken away from your cruel foster- parents? What were those people's names, and what were they?" "My foster-parents, or my tormentors rather, were called Mr. and Mistress Simon.
"You were too young to make those inquiries which I have completed. You knew little of your parents." "My father was a butcher of Paris; I know that." "That is an error, sir. Those you regarded as your parents were but foster-parents, though they bore the same name." "Who, then, do you pretend was my father?" cried the merchant in amazement.
"Jist been fishin'," he remarked vaguely; "and I'm goin' with you," he added, with that mixture of defiance and appeal which the orphans had already learned was sure to move their foster-parents. "Ye'd better watch out! The banshee'll git ye," threatened Spectacle John.
After she was gone, the invalid took paper and a lead pencil, and with a weak and trembling hand wrote as follows: "I cannot arrive I feel it! I sink before I reach the haven. Oh, foster-parents, good sisters, have mercy on my little one, my child, who knocks at your door, and will deliver to you my humble, my last prayer! Give to her a warm home, when I am resting in my cold one!
May gladly promised, for she felt curious to see Texford, since she had only a very faint recollection of the place. As evening was approaching she wished her foster-parents good-bye. Just as she left the house Jacob came up from the boat. She greeted him in her usual unaffected way, but he seemed even less at his ease than he had been of late when he met her.
Sara's joyless marriage was over; and the hour was come in which she was to leave that home and family which had so affectionately received her, and which now with solicitude and the tenderest care provided for her wants in her new position. In the hour of separation, the crust of ice which had hitherto surrounded her being broke, she sank, weeping violently, at the feet of her foster-parents.
Yet in Rome and Brussels Wolf had held fast to the conviction that a beloved betrothed bride was awaiting him in Ratisbon. So long as his foster-parents lived he had had news from them of the Blombergs.
The free-thinkers of the second class, poor fellows! have hitherto led very different lives. Their foster-parents have been poverty and hardship; their school education has usually terminated at eleven; all their lives they have been desperately poor; alone, unaided, they have been left to fight the battle of a Free Press.
How I picked up this knowledge I never could discover: both my foster-parents were grossly illiterate. Perhaps old Ford taught me but this is one of the mysteries I could never solve; and it is strange that I should have so totally forgotten all about an affair so important, as not to remember a single lesson, and yet to hold so clear a recollection of many minor events. But so it is.
But this calmness in a little while gave way, and her overstrained, but now joyful feelings, poured themselves forth in tears. Poor child! She too had suffered during these three never-to-be-forgotten days, and the marks of that suffering were sadly visible in her pale, grief-touched countenance. To the earnest inquiries of her foster-parents, Fanny could give no very satisfactory answer.
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