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Updated: June 18, 2025
She never knew it to fail in a single case." "I don't believe Miss West would EVER try to do that," cried Faith. "Mary says ANYBODY would. She knows ALL about stepmothers, Faith she says she's seen hundreds of them and you've never seen one. Oh, Mary has told me blood-curdling things about them.
Hamilton; while Polly continued: "And I wouldn't nuther, if she could hold a candle to the t'other one; but she can't. You'd no business to marry a second time, even if you didn't marry a nuss; neither has any man who's got grow'd-up gals, and a faithful critter like Polly in the kitchen. Stepmothers don't often do well, particularly them as is sot up by marryin'." Here Mr.
"I do wish I had light hair like yours. Angels, and goddesses, and princesses, and people of that kind always have golden hair; but only bad fairies and cruel stepmothers have nasty dark hair like me. I think it is horrid to have dark hair." "I don't: I like dark hair best; and I don't think yours is half bad."
To say that the doctor was angry would but feebly express the nature of his feelings. He had fully expected that Nellie would be taken off his hands, and he had latterly a very good reason for wishing that it might be so. Grown-up daughters, he knew, were apt to look askance at stepmothers, and if he should wish to bring another there he would rather that Nellie should be out of the way.
When Richard Edgeworth encouraged his daughter Maria's literary tastes, he was doubtless mindful how much pleasure and support his own mother had derived from studying the best authors; and when we read later of the affectionate terms on which Maria stood with her various stepmothers and their families, we cannot help thinking that she must have inherited at least one of the beautiful traits in her grandmother's character which Richard Edgeworth especially dwells on: 'She had the most generous disposition that I ever met with; not only that common generosity, which parts with money, or money's worth, freely, and almost without the right hand knowing what the left hand doeth; but she had also an entire absence of selfish consideration.
Of inferior birth to her late husband the daughter of merely the village doctor she had married him when she was nearly forty, making the kindest of stepmothers to his only child, now Mrs Mildmay; loving her in no sense less devotedly than she loved her own son, Marmaduke, the child of Mr Denison's old age the Uncle Marmy, who was more like an elder brother than an uncle to the little trio sent home to his mother's care.
"Don't cry, Lulu," Gracie said in distress, "maybe papa will find another mamma for us. I wish he would." "I don't! stepmothers are always hateful! I'd hate her and never mind a word she said. O Max, Max! I'm so glad to see you!" as a handsome, dark-eyed, merry-faced boy came rushing in.
The boy looked at her, and seemed to read her countenance. "It was not always so, madam: I remember we were once happy folks; but it was a sad day for Dick and I, when father's wife took place of father's love." "Thou shouldst think well of thy father's wife, and honour his choice. Stepmothers, child, have a hard task: they cannot please, do what they will."
I had several eligible offers for my hand; all of which she refused, under one pretence or another covering her designs against me by the mask of an anxiety for my happiness; so that she was looked upon by all who were acquainted with her as the best of stepmothers the kindest protector of youth. At length, her wishes were accomplished.
"Stepmothers, my lord," said she, have hard duties to perform; and when we think we fulfill them best, our suspicious husband comes with a magician's wand, and turns all our good to evil."
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