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"But I believe he's a very good man in private life," Frida put in apologetically, feeling compelled to say the best she could for her husband's guest. "I don't care for him much myself, to be sure, but Robert likes him. And he's awfully nice, every one says, to his wife and step-children."
I suppose one would not mind eating one's step-children, though would one? What do you think?" Her great, blue eyes looked at me pathetically. I tried to consider seriously the problem of the consumption of possible step-children; it was too difficult for me. "I quite hoped to make it pay," she continued "keeping prize pigs, I mean; we are so frightfully poor.
Now this wicked woman was blind to the faults of the child she loved, and to the good qualities of her husband's children, whom she hated. When in a bad temper she was fond of boasting of the handsome fortune she intended securing for her own daughter, even though the step-children should be unprovided for. But, as the old proverb says, "Man proposes, but God disposes."
Rosamund now ardently desired to become an actress, and after much secret discussion with his wife, her father had at last told her that if she were of the same opinion when she reached the age of twenty-one he would put no obstacle in her way. As to Tom, the youngest of Janet Tosswill's step-children, he was "quite all right."
Lucy, now that the warfare was over, had begun to weep so profusely that so soon as her father released her, she turned, made a mute gesture to ask permission to depart, and hurried away; while Lady Thistlewood, who disliked above all that her husband should think her harsh to her step-children, began to relate the exceeding tenderness of the remonstrance which had been followed with such disproportionate floods of tears.
There the guiltless wife spares her motherless step-children, nor does the portioned spouse govern her husband, nor put any confidence in a sleek adulterer. Their dower is the high virtue of their parents, and a chastity reserved from any other man by a steadfast security; and it, is forbidden to sin, or the reward is death.
There are no step-children in God's great family, and none of them receives a more grudging or a less ample share of His love and goodness than every other. Far-stretching as the race, and curtaining it over as some great tent may enclose on a festal day a whole tribe, the breadth of Christ's love is the breadth of humanity. And it is universal because it is divine.
She took little interest in her younger step-children; they were allowed to live pretty much their own lives and follow their own desires; but still there were some things that must be checked, and this friendship with a low-born girl was one of them.
Margery watched Miss Lady's quick motion as she opened all the windows behind the ruffled curtains, and let in a current of fresh invigorating air. "How young you are!" she said. "Years and years younger than I feel. I can't realize you are married and have three step-children." "Neither can I," said Miss Lady. "I'm always forgetting it. Wouldn't you like to sit up for a while?" "Oh! I can't.
"Hereafter, madame, for the sake of our step-children, be more circumspect.
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