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Updated: May 28, 2025
She had believed for a little while that she hated him, but now she longed to protect him from pain, to comfort him, to make him happy, as surely she had once made him happy, if only for an hour or two. She forgot her pride and her sense of injury in a sudden rush of feeling that was new to her, that perhaps, really, had something of motherliness in it.
She did not reserve her motherliness for the reception room either, as some schoolmasters' wives have a tendency to do, and the smallest boy felt less homesick when he saw her. She opened a green baize outer door, and the door beyond it, and led them into a long high room, with desks and forms placed against the walls, and a writing table, and line of brown-stained tables down the middle.
Later, the stout woman from the galley came aft to set out the table, which occupied the center of the saloon, and whilst she was at this, she asked for information on many things, being very free and unaffected in her speech, and seeming with less of deference to my companion, than a certain motherliness; for it was very plain that she loved Mistress Madison, and in this my heart did not blame her.
That is the charm of Nature with us; the motherliness in her that offsets, and breaks through with loving impulse, her rule of rigidness. The year comes slowly to its growth, but she relaxes toward it with a kind of pity, and says, "There, take this! It isn't time for it, but you needn't wait for everything till you're grown up!"
The woman's tone struck the boy pleasantly as though it had been a phrase of cheerful music. There was a motherliness in it a something, for which, perhaps all unknown to himself, his secret heart was thirsting.
There comes before me one mother of fourteen children who has never seen the inside of a college classroom, yet whom it would be hard to excel in her qualities of motherliness.
Marie, however, on the very threshold called out in her calm voice, to which she strove to impart a gay and cheering accent: "Children! children! here is Monsieur l'Abbe with news of father!" Children, indeed! Yet what motherliness she already set in the word as she applied it to those big fellows whose elder sister she had long considered herself to be!
But the greatest likeness was to be found in their natures: in Fru Hejberg's expression when she was quiet and serious; in a certain motherliness which was the salient feature in her nature. "What a healthy girl!" said she; bade some one bring Helene to her, and drawing her towards her, kissed her on the forehead.
There was a rush of warm air from the kitchen which felt grateful after the damp chill outside. Ellen went into the kitchen, and her mother stood there over the stove, stirring the stew. She looked up at the girl with an expression of intense motherliness which was beyond a smile. "Well, so you've got home?" she said. "Yes." "How did you get along?" "All right. It isn't hard work.
For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness. But perhaps he had forgotten all that. In these days she often felt as if she did not understand men at all, as if their natures were hidden from her, and perhaps, of necessity, from all women. "We can't understand each other." She often said that to herself, and partly to comfort herself a little.
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