United States or Colombia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Indeed, he has created them. They are the proper issue of his brain, lawfully begot, not foundlings, nor the "bastards of his art." He is not an indifferent, callous spectator of the scenes which he himself pourtrays, but without seeming to feel them.
I told him that I belonged to Vitalis, and that he had paid a sum of money for me, and that I must return to him the moment he wanted me. I had spoken of my foster parents, but had never said that they were not really my father and mother. I felt ashamed to admit that I was a foundling, a child picked up in the streets! I knew how the children from the Foundlings' Hospital had been scorned.
"If I send some presents to the children will you see that they are properly distributed?" "Yes, but for goodness' sake don't send any drums or horns." "I won't. How many boys have you?" "Well, we've got a good many, I can tell you. You see, this isn't a regular foundlings' home. We take up poor children from most, everywhere. We've got ninety-three boys." And how many girls?"
"'This is not a place, Mr Slick, for foundlings, I'de have you to know, she said, with an air of disgust, 'but children whose parents are of the first class of society. If, and she paused and looked at me scrutinisin', 'if your proposals are of that nature, walk in here, Sir, if you please, where our conversation will not be over-heard. Pray be seated.
Organizations were introduced upon the most extensive and varied scale; one had charge of foundlings, another of orphans, another of the poor. We have already alluded to the parabolani or visitors, and of the manner in which they were diverted from their original intent.
I watched them at frequent intervals, but saw no attempts on the part of the foundlings to crowd out their fellow-nestlings. The cowbirds were the first to leave the sylvan roof tree.
The Hospice-Général, receives each year on an average about five or six hundred foundlings. A tour is always ready at one of the entrances to receive them.
One of two things: either this boy is to be sent away to some institution, to take his place among other orphans and foundlings, or he must be one of you for now and always, to share alike with you while I live, to be bore with and helped by each and every one of you as if he was your own blood, and to have his share of the property when I am gone.
That distress, that deformity, that abandonment, the thought of his young brother, the idea which suddenly occurred to him, that if he were to die, his dear little Jehan might also be flung miserably on the plank for foundlings, all this had gone to his heart simultaneously; a great pity had moved in him, and he had carried off the child.
Word Of The Day