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Many of them are so miserable, poor souls, about their husbands and sons and brothers who are in the trenches, or who have been killed, and then there are the children to be cared for and washed. Not only the siege orphans, but so many who have sick or neglectful mothers. It takes us the whole day once we get there."
The old housekeeper as she watched the deserted father grow indifferent to what he had to eat and drink though he had once been so quick to appreciate the dishes which she prepared so deftly and neglectful of the attentions which he had been wont to pay to the outside world, became embittered towards Melchior whom she had carried in her arms and loved like her own child.
Yes, I know I am a neglectful mother. But what would you have?" "I would have you as you are," he answered, "and only as you are; or for choice a trifle worse than you are; and so much nearer my own level." "Oh, I know you! It is the wicked women you admire like Madame Palmer." "Always harping upon Barbara. 'My mother had a maid called Barbara. His Majesty has a lady of the same melodious name.
But if it had been, Miss Trix Queenborough might have been expected to act very much in the way in which she proceeded to act: that is to say, to be extravagantly attentive to Lord Newhaven when Jack Ives was present, and markedly neglectful of him in the curate's absence. It also fitted in very well with the theory which I had ventured to hint, that her bearing towards Mrs.
Irene was troubled by this old manner of her father. Could he have forgotten why she was there? "Yes, it is pleasant," he replied, and then his eye dropped in a thoughtful way. "I think, sometimes, that your attractive New York friends have made you neglectful of your lonely old father. You don't come to see him as often as you did a year ago." Mr. Delancy said this with simple earnestness.
If he is cruel, neglectful, overbearing, she is perfectly aware of it. He does not deceive her, and she does not deceive herself. I have often thought: If a son could look into a mother's heart, what an eye-opener he would have! "What!" he would cry.
I do not know what plans are being worked out behind Uncle's lowered eyelids. But I do know his idea of duty does not include keeping such a valuable asset as a bright and beautiful niece hid away for his solitary joy. In fact, he would consider himself a neglectful and altogether unkind relative if he did not marry Sada off to the very best advantage to himself.
Working at her harebell was the pleasantest thing she did, but her eagerness about it often made her neglectful and brought her into scrapes.
He was not too neglectful when he went where there was not any smiling. He adjoined where there was no indication of the meaning of acquisition. He was all the same not tormented. He did not tolerate the rest. He did not refuse that. He chose where he would leave what he had hoped to choose. He did say everything. He told all that.
Half an hour later Mrs. Dean entered the room to find them still talking at an alarming rate, the rest of their world apparently forgotten. "I might have known it," she smiled. "Why, you haven't even taken off your hats, and dinner will be ready in ten minutes. Marjorie, you are a most neglectful hostess." "Oh, we don't mind having dinner with our hats on," returned Marjorie cheerfully.
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