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Updated: May 23, 2025
When one becomes a father, then first one becomes a son. Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world-old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self.
Cupping her strong hands about the picture with a quick protectiveness, she suddenly raised it to her lips, and kissed it lightly. "O little girl!" she cried. "I hope you will be very happy!" The little involuntary act, so tender, so sisterly and spontaneous, touched the Virginian extremely. "Thanks, awfully," he said unsteadily.
He looked round at her, with a half-turn of the head. In his glance was good humour, good nature, protectiveness, and rectitude; and, more than these, some of the old serenely smiling triumphant quality. He was not ruined! He was not really in adversity! He remained the conqueror! She thrilled with her relief.
Janey's face was one universal blush as she came forward and looked up in Miss Fairfax's handsome, beneficent face. There had always been an indulgent protectiveness in Bessie's manner to the master-mariner's little daughter, and it came back quite naturally. Janey expected hasty questions, perhaps reproaches, perhaps coldness, but none of these were in Bessie's way.
Liking for both men increased with acquaintance, and for the younger I came to feel, in addition, a kind of championship, doubtless in some measure due to what Keredec had told me of him, but more to that half- humourous sense of protectiveness that we always have for those young people whose untempered and innocent outlook makes us feel, as we say, "a thousand years old."
You're not to be trusted out of sight. I despise you and never want to see you again." Could this be Alice, this little fury, white and tense, with clenched hands and glinting eyes, animal-like in her fierce protectiveness? Joan looked at her in amazement. Hadn't she already been hit hard enough? But before she could speak Alice was in breath again.
She had a beautiful hand, long, warm, and firm, and the fingers, when they clasped, seemed to possess and inclose your own the tenderness of the maidenly, the protectiveness of the maternal.
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. Her eyes had a deeper look than that in Jim's. Now, as she gazed at him, the maternal spirit rose up from the great well of protectiveness in her and engulfed both husband and child.
They worked on, for they were trained to work on, even through the sense of their own futility. Looking about her Ernestine saw it all, and held him with a passionate protectiveness. If all else failed, her arms arms to which he had ever come for help and consolation could surely hold him! The cold fear crept farther and farther into her heart, and as it crept on her arms about him tightened.
For the rough idealist had found in his employer an idealism not always as clear and intelligent as his own, yet often higher and finer; and along with the professional protectiveness which he had assumed over the younger man's inexperience had come an honest admiration and far-reaching hopes. Now he saw in his chief one who had betrayed his cause through a weak and selfish indulgence.
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