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"Doth she mistreat thee?" "There be times that she stayeth her hand, being asleep or overcome with drink; but when she hath her judgment clear again, she maketh it up to me with goodly beatings." A fierce look came into the little prince's eyes, and he cried out "What! Beatings?" "Oh, indeed, yes, please you, sir." "BEATINGS! and thou so frail and little.
The rough hands became immediately gentle. Then things grew black. The last she remembered was that the mountains were dancing up and down in an odd fashion. Her eyes opened to see Curly. She was in his arms and his face was broken with emotions of love and tenderness. "You're not hurt," he implored. "No." "He didn't mistreat you?" His voice was trembling as he whispered it. "No No."
During his bad spells, when he felt depressed from lack of opium, the doses of which Basilio was trying to reduce, he would scold, mistreat, and abuse the boy, who bore it resignedly, conscious that he was doing good to one to whom he owed so much, and yielded only in the last extremity.
"My my scout suit!" faltered the boy. The light in those peering, bloodshot eyes told him that the longshoreman would mistreat that beloved uniform; and Johnnie wanted to gain time. Something, or some one, might interrupt, and thus stave off what? Barber straightened. "Take it off," he said quietly, but with heat; and added, "Before I tear it off." Johnnie proceeded to carry out the order.
He adored children. The roughest of them could take unpardonable liberties with him. He would let them maul and mistreat him to their heart's content; and he reveled in such usage; although to humans other than the Mistress and the Master, he was sternly resentful of any familiarity. His senses told him this bundle contained a child; a baby. It had been lying alone and defenseless beside the road.
"By heaven," Abner exclaimed, starting up, "if I thought he'd ever mistreat Betty, I'd " "You'd whut?" "I'd run away with her," he answered, facing Rogers as he spoke. "If a father abuses his authority, he no longer merits consideration on the ground of his fatherhood."
"Is is she safe, David, is he himself? Oh, I must go down there. I know I can reason " He stopped her gently. "Please, Christine," he commanded. She suddenly put her hands to his face, and looked into his eyes. "If anything were to happen to her," she whispered in agony, "I would " "She is perfectly safe," he broke in. "Your father will not mistreat her."
There is something more at fault than the language when we turn from or flinch at it; and, as has been intimated, the wretched fault may be skulkingly hidden away in the ambush of OSTENSIBLE dialect that type of dialect so copiously produced by its sole manufacturers, who, utterly stark and bare of the vaguest idea of country life or country people, at once assume that all their "gifted pens" have to do is stupidly to misspell every word; vulgarly mistreat and besloven every theme, however sacred; maim, cripple, and disfigure language never in the vocabulary of the countryman then smuggle these monstrosities of either rhyme or prose somehow into the public print that is innocently to smear them broadcast all over the face of the country they insult.
I couldn't give her up to them again, when the bare sight throws her into spasms, unless I was made to do it." "You couldn't prove any right to her," observed the lawyer. "No, I couldn't," replied Grandma Padgett, expressing some injury in her tone. "But on that account ought I to let her go to them that would mistreat her?" "She may be their child," said the lawyer.
The typical stepmother lives, moves and has her being in neurotic novels written by very young ladies. Instances can be cited of great men who were loved and nurtured and ministered to by their stepmothers. I think well of womankind. The woman who abuses a waif that Fate has sent into her care would mistreat her own children, and is a living libel on her sex.
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