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Updated: June 27, 2025
A child has come from a refined and loving home, but only to meet with roughness or coarseness; and instead of retaining those gifts and qualities of childhood, which are the godlike qualities of life and meant to be permanent, he has been led to grow up utterly unchildlike, depraved, debased, hardened; and there is no sadder sight to see than a growth of this kind.
While her grandfather's body lay in the house, she had wept inconsolably. But as soon as the funeral services began, her tears stopped; her eyes grew large and bright with excitement; she held her head erect; a noble exaltation and pride shone on her features; she gazed upon the faces of the people with a composure and dignity which were unchildlike.
She deigned to dance once with Mark, after which he did his duty by trotting out a succession of calm and self-possessed little girls, who were as unchildlike as if they had been out for a season or two. Then he thought he might reward himself by going to look for Mabel, whom he found in one of the lower rooms endeavouring to amuse the smaller and non-dancing members of the company.
The child hesitated, and then said, speaking low and most unchildlike "It is about a human soul." "And what do you understand are the powers at work or at play?" "It is not play," said Daisy. "Answer Dr. Sandford, Daisy," said her father. "Papa," said the child, "it isn't play. The devil tries to make people do wrong and if they try to do right, then there is a " "A what?"
This appeared to be the source of the vaede's water that nourished the people. Brion was aware of eyes upon him and turned and smiled at the little girl. She couldn't have been over six years old, but she was already a Disan in every way. She neither returned his smile nor changed her expression, unchildlike in its stolidity.
During all that time, as far as they knew, she had never referred to the past and both believed that, for her, it was dead; but when weakness and fever loosened the unchildlike control, something occurred that alarmed Lynda, but broke down forever the thin barrier that, for all her effort, had existed between her and Ann.
'Arabian Nights? Then sit and read it quietly till you go to bed. Good-night, my dear." She kissed her, which was always a slight effort; it was hard work loving Titia, who was so cold and prim, and unchildlike, with so little responsiveness in her nature. "I hope all is safe for today," thought Christian, anxiously, and determined to speak to Titia's father the first opportunity.
Should she not turn her back upon any purely personal advantage as she would upon a moral plague? When Ellen's father said that to her at the supper-table she looked at him with unchildlike eyes. "I think it is something for me to worry about, father," she said. "How can I help worrying if I love Aunt Eva and Amabel?" "It's a dreadful thing for Eva," said Fanny.
He began to realize how different she was from other children of her age, and how the hardihood of her rearing had developed qualities that were quite unchildlike. He wondered how she would adapt herself to the habits and thoughts of other girls of her own age, and was not surprised that Mrs. Trent craved such society for her.
The little stratagems she had devised to try him, the little tokens he had given in his childish way not of dulness but of something infinitely worse, so ghastly and unchildlike in its cunning came back as vividly as if but yesterday had intervened.
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