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Updated: June 8, 2025
"You heard what he said of HER, Mag. Do you think it might be true?" She lifted the damp curls from his forehead with a sad half-maternal smile, but did not reply. "And Mag, dear, don't you think YOU were a little just a little hard on HIM? No! Don't look at me that way, for God's sake! There, I didn't mean anything. Of course you knew best. There, Maggie dear, look up. Hark there!
His face was hidden, and hesitatingly, with a half-shy, half-maternal gesture Ann touched the dark head pressed against her. Moments passed and he neither stirred nor spoke. At last she stooped over him. "Eliot," she said quietly, "tell me why you have come back?" Even then he did not move at once, but at last he raised his head from her knees and met her eyes.
"I remember sitting up all night near your state-room, with a cork jacket and lots of things I'd fixed up for you, and thinking I'd die before I trusted you alone in the boat to those rascally Lascars of the crew." "But how would you have prevented it?" asked Miss Keene, with a compassionate and half-maternal amusement.
Lucy, when she goes from home," said the tender elder sister, glancing at her with a half-maternal admiration "and she might always be visiting about if she liked writes to me every day." "I have nobody who cares for me enough to write every week," said the Curate, with a look which was for Lucy's benefit. "I am not so lucky as you.
I had thought, when we first sat round the tea-table, that she was good for the bit of romance I wanted; but since she has undertaken to be a kind of half-maternal friend to the young Tutor, I am afraid I shall have to give her up as the heroine of a romantic episode.
And yet in this pulsating recognition of his manhood there was mingled with an emotion half-maternal the memory of her own guardianship of his stunted childhood. To a woman at once rashly spirited and profoundly feminine the pathos of his boyish struggle appealed no less forcibly than did the virility of his manhood. She might have loved him less had her thought of him been untouched by pity.
It was at first pleasant enough, this half-maternal protectorate which is apt to mingle even with the affections of younger women, and Clarence, in his easy, half-feminine intuition of the sex, yielded, as the strong are apt to yield, through the very consciousness of their own superiority.
Patricia clearly perceived that, whatever had been her husband's relations with this woman, he had been manifestly entrapped into the imbroglio a victim to Mrs. Pendomer's inordinate love of attention, which was, indeed, tolerably notorious; and Patricia's anger against Rudolph Musgrave gave way to a rather contemptuous pity and a half-maternal remorse for not having taken better care of him.
And yet will you believe it, Kathleen? it doesn't seem to make me feel a bit better no, not a bit." "It's very like his hat," she declared, "in that he has a new one every year." Then she rested her hand on his, in a half-maternal fashion. "What's the matter, boy?" she asked, softly. "You're always so fresh and wholesome. I don't like to see you like this.
And do you really think" she smiled a little sadly "if I if things were different that I should have written to ask you to meet me to-day? Have you learned so little of women in all these years?" There was something besides sadness in her eyes now: a wistful, half-maternal tenderness. He raised his head. "I've learned nothing about women, Margaret, but what I learned from you."
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