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Updated: May 23, 2025
"What a morning, motherkins," Oliver cried. "Such a sky, all china-blue and white. Oh, you just ought to see how fine the old church looms up behind the trees. I'm going to paint that some day, from my window. Dad had his breakfast?" and he glanced at the empty seat and plate. "Sausage, eh?
She could see farther into his heart she thought when the face of some sweet girl lay mirrored in its depths. Oliver heard the doubting sound his mother made, and, reaching over her chair, flung his arms about her neck and kissed her as if she had been a girl. "Now, don't you laugh, you dear old motherkins," he cried, drawing her nearer to him until her face touched his.
"You see," remarked Otto, one evening when his sister wondered, with a sigh, whether their mother had yet begun to feel very anxious about them, "you see, she could not have expected to hear much before this time, for the voyage to Eastern seas is always a long one, and it is well known that vessels often get blown far out of their courses by monsoons, and simoons, and baboons, and such like southern hurricanes, so motherkins won't begin to grow anxious, I hope, for a long time yet, and it's likely that before she becomes very uneasy about us, some ship or other will pass close enough to see our signals and take us off so "
With the picture clearly stamped upon his brain, he turned and stepped quickly across the Square, and in another moment he had thrown his mother a kiss through the window, and rushing inside had caught her in his arms. "Poor motherkins and you all alone," he cried. "Why, I thought you and father had gone to bed long ago." "No, son I was waiting for you."
"He has a profound respect for your abilities, Dina." "Seems to me you and Mr. Thaddler have a good deal to say to each other, motherkins. I believe you enjoy that caffeteria desk, and all the compliments you get." "I do," said Mrs. Bell stoutly. "I do indeed! Why, I haven't seen so many men, to speak to, since why, never in my life! And they are very amusing some of them.
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