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Jackson was not the only stranger in their gates; the Captain's sister, Aunt Anna Jenkin, lived with them until her death; she had all the Jenkin beauty of countenance, though she was unhappily deformed in body and of frail health; and she even excelled her gentle and ineffectual family in all amiable qualities.

But if this maturation takes place, we ought to ask ourselves: "What have we done to help it? What support did we offer to this frail mind to enable it to grow straight and strong?" The child overcomes his difficulties in spite of our endeavor to keep him in ignorance and illusion. The child overcomes himself and us. He goes where his internal force of development and maturation lead him.

If I saw the least sign " Just then there was the spark of a match against the darkness framed in by the window opposite. A hand and arm shone in the flicker of light across the upper sash. A tiny spark, tremulous at first, like a bird alighting on a frail branch, paused, steadied, and became fixed.

Could this be her once frail daughter, who had despised all strenuous sports and hated water above all things, who was swinging her paddle so lustily and steering the Keewaydin so skilfully? What was this strange Something that the Camp Fire had instilled into her?

She cried in a strange, low, wild tone, quite unlike the screech crying of the children of civilization. The following morning we crossed Prince Frederick Sound to the west coast of Admiralty Island. Our frail shell of a canoe was tossed like a bubble on the swells coming in from the ocean. Still, I suppose, the danger was not so great as it seemed.

He looked down weeping upon his frail and tremulous legs, and yielding to one last ray of hope he addressed the clerk in suppliant accents: "My good father in God in the name of charity do intercede in my behalf with my good seigneur count!" "Seigneur, I ask grace for the poor old man." "Clerk! Does the slave belong to me yes or not? Am I his master yes or not?"

The thought of this vast publicity, this careless or cruel scorn of the big world toward one so frail, so anguished, so helpless in death clutched Diana many times in each day and night.

Silently Felicia's weary feet carried her along behind her untidy conductor. Unconsciously she tiptoed as she passed the closed door of her mother's room, tiptoed as gently as though that frail sufferer were still lying listlessly on the "sleighback" bed.

Each seized a paddle, and soon the canoe was headed for the open, with Dane squatting forward, and the Indian seated astern. Less hardy souls would have hesitated ere venturing out upon that angry stretch of water in such a frail craft. The crooked Kennebacasis was showing its temper in no uncertain manner.

"You know I'd be glad to see you, if you were in rags." "All aboard!" cried the porter, grinning sympathetically. Honora threw her arms around Aunt Mary and clung to her. How small and frail she was! Somehow Honora had never realized it in all her life before. "Good-by, darling, and remember to put on your thick clothes on the cool days, and write when you get to New York."