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Updated: May 17, 2025
When Raymond was dying on the battle-field he gave the doctor his flask to give to his father; it was placed by the side of his bed and never moved till we left Whitehall. I had not realised before how powerless a step-wife is when her husband is mourning the death of his child; and not for the first time I profoundly wished that Raymond had been my son.
"I didn't say my papa had a step-wife, Dotty Dimple." But this was all Jennie had time to retort, for Dotty now entered the pew where her class were to sit. Miss Preston was the teacher, and it was her custom to have each of her little pupils repeat a half dozen verses or so, which she explained to them in a very clear manner.
"Then you have been married several times, have you, Kintchin?" "Yas'm. Dar wuz my fust wife an' my fust step-wife, an' " "Your first step-wife?" "Yas'm stepped inter de place o' my fust wife. My fust wife wuz Sue, an' she wuz er good 'oman, I tell you. But she liked music too well.
"I am married myself to a severe step-wife who keeps me, not at bed and board, but at desk and board, and is jealous of my morning aberrations. I cannot slip out to congratulate kinder unions. It is well she leaves me alone o' nights the d-d Day-hag Business. She is even now peeping over me to see I am writing no Love Letters. "Twenty adieus, my dear friends, till we meet. "Yours most truly,
"Where are you going, Jennie?" said she. "Going home. My mamma says I needn't stay to say my lessons and miss a warm dinner." Jennie said this with such a toss of the head that Dotty longed to reply in a cutting manner. "It isn't polite to have warm dinners on Sunday, Jennie Vance! But you said your father had a step-wife, and perhaps she doesn't know!"
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