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I gave him one dressing, to begin with; for I found he'd got to know who was master. I've had him six weeks, and he isn't hardly broke in yet." Poor motherless child! No doubt she too wept bitterly over the separation; but no word of pity, or even a sigh of sympathy, must be allowed here. I must listen to this, and a great deal more, with stoical indifference. As Mrs.
Dacre is not a dreamer. He is a leader of men a natural leader like you!" The eloquence of voice and gesture surprised Richard Lincoln; but he was too puzzled by Mary's manner to reply. Looking at her as if from a distance, he only remembered, sadly, how little of her life he had seen how much there was from which he had been left out in the heart of his motherless girl.
By and by it began to look as though she had forgotten that there were more than five. She could not count. But most mothers can number their children, even if they cannot count, and soon Calico began to fidget, looking up at the hat which the hungry, motherless squirrels kept rocking. Then she leaped out upon the floor, purring, and bounded upon the table, going straight to the young squirrels.
"Doubtest thou then, my motherless one, the judgment of him who loves thee?" he asked. "I doubt it not, my father," answered his daughter. "Yet would I not wed with the Spaniard," she added stubbornly. "The blue-eyed senor from England" there was a hint of humor in his tone, "he it is who steals thy fancy! Is it not so, my Wildenai?"
They married very shortly after the War. "My mother was a motherless girl. My daddy said he looked at her struggling along. All the other girls were trying to have a good time. But she would be settin' down trying to make a quilt or something else useful, and he said to a friend of his, 'That woman would make a good wife; I am going to marry her. And he did.
"Then Christ sought out an artisan, A low-browed, stunted, haggard man, And a motherless girl, whose fingers thin, Pushed from her faintly want and sin. These set He in the midst of them, And as they drew back their garment-hem, For fear of defilement, 'Lo here, said He, 'The IMAGES ye have made of Me!"
Maud had caught little Evert from the arms of his father, and, pressing him to her bosom, the motherless babe seemed disposed to slumber there. In this manner she walked away, attended closely by the father, who now cherished his boy as an only treasure. Willoughby lingered the last at the grave, Nick alone remaining near him.
She quickly raised herself from a reclining posture, threw off the concealing handkerchief, and gazed intently in my face, while saying slowly, as if to herself: "Not only motherless, but according to law, fatherless." "Precisely," I answered. "Her mother was in the same relation to Mr. Greyfield, that you were in to Mr. Seabrook; but happily she did not know it in her lifetime." "Nor he nor he!
Though the door is closed between us, I can see these motherless children under this same blue mirror the glass that had helped to pale the blood on their mother's face after she left the warm Cornish sea that was her home, and came to settle and die in this bleak exile. Some of her books are in the little bookcase here. They were sent round from the West by sea, and met with shipwreck.
Heaven knows there's nothing in this world more valuable than an education; and she will need it, poor little, motherless child!" As the stage drove up before the station Daisy opened her blue eyes with a sigh. "I can at least write to Rex at once," she thought, "and explain the whole matter to him." Daisy smiled as she thought Rex would be sure to follow on the very next train.
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