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"Poor Susannah, she used to talk about it as long as she lived." "Was she a slave?" "Of course, but we were good to her and took care of her till she died. My father gave her to me when I was married. That was years and years and years before we came to this state. I was fifteen when I was married " "Fifteen," Marjorie almost shouted. That was queerer than having so many step-mothers.
Few step-mothers and daughters get on as we do, and I am sure you would look after poor Fred's boys as if they were your own." "So would Katherine. Of that you may be sure, my dear." "Oh yes; she is very fond of them, especially Charlie. I do not think she is really just to Cecil." "Real justice is rare," returned Mrs. Liddell, calmly.
What could he do the father who had just given his children a new mother, they being old enough not only to understand this, but previously taught; as most people are so fatally ready to teach children, the usual doctrine about step-mothers, and also quite ready to rebel against the same?
It is this difficult thing I wish to compass; I mean to extend my power over my neighbors here; I only ask that the people of Kieliei shall aid me." Temudjin now gave a grand feast on the banks of the Onon, and distributed decorations among his brothers. To this were invited Sidsheh Bigi, chief of the Burgins or Barins, his own mother, and two of his step-mothers.
The two step-mothers confessed that they loved their husbands' children as dearly as their own. Said one woman: "When people speak to me of my step-daughter I have to stop and think which one of the children I did not bring into the world. She is as dear to me as my own flesh and blood."
Quizzle broke in at the first opportunity and said, "No doubt, governor, it is easy for you to be placid, for everything has gone well with you since you started life, whereas my mother died when I was little, and I was kicked and cuffed about by a step-mother whose name I cannot bear to hear." Ha! ha! said Governor Wiseman. It is the old story of step-mothers.
"Thee says, friend, thee has taken horses from this very Village, and that thee knows it well?" "As well," replied Ralph, "as I know the step-mothers on my own thumbs and fingers, I do, 'tarnal death to me, that is to say, all the parts, injacent and outjacent, circum-surrounding the boss-stamp; for thar's the place of my visiting.
I am disposed, however, to think that, while there may be marked exceptions, step-mothers are the most self-sacrificing beings in all the world. They come into the family scrutinized by the household and the relatives of the one who used to occupy the motherly position. Neighborly busybodies meet the children on the street and sigh over them and ask them how their new mother treats them.
The animosities too between the ladies administered fresh fuel; while towards Agrippina, Livia was actuated by the despite natural to step-mothers: and over-tempestuous was the indignation of Agrippina; only that her known chastity and love for her husband, always gave her mind, however vehement, a virtuous turn.
Her history is almost unique in its curious relationships; its changes of step-mothers, its warm family ties, its grasp of certain facts which belong to all time rather than to the hour itself. Miss Edgeworth lived for over eighty years, busy, beneficent, modest, and intelligent to the last. When she died she was mourned as unmarried women of eighty are not often mourned.
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