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Updated: May 17, 2025
When the law of God was restored, and Britain made again a Christian land, hearken now what foul work was done by treason and by envy. Rowena, that evil stepmother, caused Vortimer, her husband's son, to be poisoned, by reason of the hatred she bore him, since he chased Hengist from the realm.
"Maisie and Ettie will be lucky, indeed, to be taken care of by such a competent stepmother. Don't you think so?"
For my part, I never saw a froward child mended by whipping; and I would not have the mother country become a stepmother.
Now one day, when the King was out and nobody else near, the bad woman took the Queen by her head, and the daughter took her by her heels, and they dragged her from her bed, and flung her out of the window into the stream which flowed beneath it. Then the stepmother laid her ugly daughter in the Queen's place, and covered her up with the clothes, so that nothing of her was seen.
On Dotterine's tenth birthday her nurse handed her over the cradle, and repeated to her her mother's dying words; but the child was too young to understand the value of such a gift, and at first thought little about it. Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king's absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.
To those newborn into its family circle it cannot be an indifferent godmother; it has towards them all the feelings of a mother, or of a stepmother, as the case may be.
He had had his lesson from a pretty woman, and the immediate effect of it was to foster the delusion that there was a mysterious affinity between ugliness and virtue. "Tell me what it is, Judy. Can I help you?" he said kindly. "It's nothin'. I am always in trouble," she answered, sobbing outright behind her sunbonnet. "Between pa and my stepmother, there isn't a spot on earth I can rest in."
'That's a long name to call it. 'Would the girl sail back alone with the crew? 'She's used to the sea and perhaps she isn't alone. There was that stepmother But it doesn't make a ha'porth of difference to our plans: we'll start on the ebb to-morrow morning. We were busier than usual that night, reckoning stores, tidying lockers, and securing movables.
He repeated these poems to his stepmother after dinner, before a great shining mahogany table, covered with grapes, pineapples, plum-cake, port wine, and Madeira, and surrounded by stout men in black, with baggy white neckcloths, who took the little man between their knees, and questioned him as to his right understanding of the place whither naughty boys were bound.
"My stepmother has declared to me that I shall never have a wife until I obtain Olwen, the daughter of Yspadaden Penkawr." "That will be easy for thee," answered his father. "Arthur is thy cousin. Go, therefore, unto Arthur, to cut thy hair, and ask this of him as a boon."
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