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I almost fancy that the more He was cast out from men, Nature had made him of her store A worthier denizen; As if it pleased her to caress A plant grown up so wild, As if his being parentless Had made him more her child. Monckton Milnes. At twelve years of age Ishmael was a tall, thin, delicate-looking lad, with regular features, pale complexion, fair hair, and blue eyes.
"Does little pardner like the pup?" said Jim, patting the sick little man on the back with his clumsy but comforting hand. "Do you want him to come here and play?" The wee bit of a parentless, deserted boy slowly shook his head. "Don't you like him any more?" said Jim. A weak little nod was the answer. "Is there anything the baby wants?" inquired the miner, tenderly.
He had his paternal rights even here Els and Eva were not parentless orphans.
That lady, as much attached to Isaura as was Mrs. Morley herself, and still more desirous of seeing a girl, brilliant and parentless, transferred from the companionship of Signora Venosta to the protection of a husband, entertained no belief in the serious attentions of Graham Vane.
"`Imagine, if you can, my brethren, he said, `in the building set apart in your town for the reception of your destitute poor, a child parentless, friendless, and moneyless, condemned, as it seemed, to perpetual raggedness and intolerable suffering.
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