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He remarked the sweetness and sense in the face of the house-mother as she bestowed their suppers upon the children. She was still comparatively young, but there was no beauty of youth about her, only the appearance of strength that is produced by toil and endurance before these two have worn the strength away.
Suddenly Elizabeth perceived her own hands lying on her lap. Useless bejewelled things! When had they ever fed a man or nursed a child? Under her gauze veil she coloured fiercely. If the housewife, in her primitive meaning and office, is vital to Canada, still more is the house-mother. "Bear me sons and daughters; people my wastes!" seems to be the cry of the land itself.
Next instant the little lobby is filled: a bevy of daughters, the good house-mother, one or two youngsters dragging at his legs, everyone eager to welcome the breadwinner home. They divest him of his wraps, soothing him the while with that tender loving solicitude a man finds only at his own happy hearth.
It was safe at home in the fatherland, where the house-mother and father had as much as they could do to put enough black bread to support life into the mouths of the five little children, too young to do as she had done, when she accompanied a neighbor's family, who were emigrating to seek their fortune in the New World.
Her dress was the same in which Captain Harewood had first seen her a plain black hat, a pale fawn-coloured skirt, and a loose open jacket over a white cambric vest and sleeves, only that now there had been a budding forth of dainty fresh knots of rose-coloured ribbon at the throat and down the front, as though a slight sensibility to the vanities as well as the cares of life had begun to dawn on the grave young house-mother.
If only I could have some fun in Paris now and then, while you played the house-mother at La Crampade! such is the name of our grange. Poor M. de l'Estorade, who fancies he is marrying one woman! Will he find out there are two? I am writing nonsense now, and as henceforth I can only be foolish by proxy, I had better stop.
I met him his first afternoon in Berkeley. He was on the top of a step-ladder, helping put up an awning for our sorority dance that evening, uttering his proverbial joyous banter to any one who came along, be it the man with the cakes, the sedate house-mother, fellow awning-hangers, or the girls busying about. Thus he was introduced to me a Freshman of two weeks.
Two or three Christian families were ready and willing to take in some of them, and many a kindly house-mother had begged to have the blind child; but in vain, for Hannah had claimed the right to bring up the hapless little boy in her own house, at any rate for the present.
Elle se les passe her little fancies! She's a phenomenon, poor dear. And all with what shall I call it? the absence of haunting remorse of a good house-mother who makes the family accounts balance. She looks and it's what they love her for here when they say 'Watch her now! like an angry saint; but she's neither a saint nor, to be perfectly fair to her, really angry at all.
Miss Martin, assistant to the house-mother, stood outside. "I began to think you were not here, Miss Cross," she said. "May I come in?" Joy opened the door. "I was busy," she answered, dropping her eyes. "I came as quickly as I could." Miss Martin was not long in making her business known. "I am inspecting drawers, and I am late to-day. Things seem to have piled up so this week.
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