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Updated: June 18, 2025
At this moment, when Madame de Monredon was sitting in judgment on the education given to the little girls brought up in the world, and on the ruinous extravagance of their young stepmothers, Madame de Nailles and Jacqueline their last visitors having departed were resting themselves, leaning tenderly against each other, on a sofa. Jacqueline's head lay on her mother's lap.
Those containing a fierce or horrible element must, of course, be promptly ruled out of court, including the "bluggy" tales of cruel stepmothers, ferocious giants and ogres, which fill the so-called fairy literature. Yet those which are pure in tone and gay with fanciful coloring may surely be told occasionally, if only for the quickening of the imagination.
Whatever put such an idea into your head?" "Mary Vance said stepmothers were all like that and that they all hated their stepchildren and made their father hate them she said they just couldn't help it just being stepmothers made them like that" "You poor child! And yet you came up here and asked me to marry your father because you wanted to make him happy?
"Look here," and the House Surgeon reached across the desk and took a firm, big-brother grip of her hands, "faery-tales have to have stepmothers as well as godmothers think of it that way. And remember that those kiddies of yours were never born to ride in pumpkin coaches." "But I'm not reaching out for faery luxuries for them.
The broken home, stepmothers, too many in family, the fascination which London exercises for the country-grown girl all and each of these reasons were responsible for all this womanhood of a certain type pouring down Oxford Street at eight o'clock in the evening.
It is certain that when fathers and mothers be dead, and stepfathers and stepmothers argue with their stepsons, and scold them and repulse them, and take not thought for their sleeping, nor for their food and drink, their hose and their shirts and all their other needs and affairs, and the same children find elsewhere a good home and good counsel from some other woman, who receives them and takes thought to warm them with some poor gruel with her and to give them a bed and keep them tidy, mending their hosen, breeches, shirts, and other garments, then those lads cleave to her and desire to be with her, and to sleep warm between her breasts, and are altogether estranged from their mothers and fathers, who before took no heed of them, and now want to get them back and have them again.
"That is what the Germans think, Susie," said Uncle Robert, laughing. "They call them 'little stepmothers." "I think it will be safe to put them out soon, Susie," said Mrs. Leonard. "Mother," called Donald from the vegetable garden, "the lettuce and radishes are growing finely, and here's a bean. Oh, there are lots of them just putting their heads through!"
Impassioned orators arose here and there in the audience demanding recognition for beef scraps, charcoal, round corn or buckwheat. Foods were regarded from various standpoints: as general invigorators, growth assisters, and egg producers. Phoebe was distinctly nervous when I rose to say a few words on poultry breeding, announcing as my topic "Mothers, Stepmothers, Foster-Mothers, and Incubators."
Let Lincoln and Raphael stand as types of men who were loved with infinite tenderness by stepmothers. And then we must not forget Leonardo da Vinci, who never knew a mother, and had no business to have a father, but who held averages good with four successive stepmothers, all of whom loved him with a tender, jealous and proud devotion.
And this was the only taste of motherhood that this brave woman knew, for she passed out in a few months. Fate decreed that Leonardo should have successively four stepmothers, and should live with all of them in happiness and harmony, for he always made his father's house his own. Leonardo was the idol of his father and all these stepmothers.
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