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"Father won't marry anybody else." "He'll be hounded into it, I expect," said Mary darkly. "All the old maids in the settlement are after him. There's no being up to them. And the worst of stepmothers is, they always set your father against you. He'd never care anything about you again. He'd always take her part and her children's part. You see, she'd make him believe you were all bad."
"Mother," she whispered to the gray silk gown, "I will never forget you, mother, and I'll ALWAYS love you best. But I have to do it, mother, because father is so very unhappy. I know you wouldn't want him to be unhappy. And I will be very good to her, mother, and try to love her, even if she is like Mary Vance said stepmothers always were."
She did not like it and she lay silent under the chill of it. "Stepmothers are AWFUL creatures," Mary went on. "I could make your blood run cold if I was to tell you all I know about 'em. The Wilson kids across the road from Wiley's had a stepmother. She was just as bad to 'em as Mrs. Wiley was to me. It'll be awful if you get a stepmother." "I'm sure we won't," said Una tremulously.
But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room. For several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
"You've been a bachelor too long, and you a great medical man too. Men are scarce in this village, and you must have at least a dozen wives." "You stop, I stop," said Inmutanka in a tone of entreaty. "Very good, honored foster-father. It's a closed subject forever. I don't think I'd care to have a dozen stepmothers just now." The cold remained intense.
It's not of the least consequence. But where is my father? He will welcome me, I am sure." The feeling too often existing between stepmothers and stepdaughters had sprung into life, and henceforth the intercourse of Maude Glendower and Nellie Kennedy would be marked with studied politeness, and nothing more. But the former did not care.
"So it seemed to me when I saw him at the exhibition of the academy. You ought to be able to get along with a father like that, Carl." "So I could but for one thing." "What is that?" "I have a stepmother!" said Carl, with a significant glance at his companion. "So have I, but she is the soul of kindness, and makes our home the dearest place in the world." "Are there such stepmothers?
But beside all those of whom you may have heard, I will now tell you of another, to be added to the list of heartless stepmothers, whom you will consider well deserving the punishment she purchased for herself with ready money. There was once a good man named Jannuccio, who had two children, Nennillo and Nennella, whom he loved as much as his own life.
This woman proved a rare exception among stepmothers but she was too indulgent, and, Audubon says, completely spoiled him, bringing him up to live like a gentleman, ignoring his faults and boasting of his merits, and leading him to believe that fine clothes and a full pocket were the most desirable things in life.
"If you're going into the wild and lawless life of the peraries with me you got to learn to get things. Jesse James or Morgan's men could get me that axe and that grub, and not make one-two-three of it." "Them guys had practice and likely they never had to go against their stepmothers." "Do I go alone, then?" "Well, now " "Will you or won't you?" Boogies drew a fateful breath.
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