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She was at heart a gentle, little woman-child, endowed by nature with so much of tom-boy barbarism as was good for her. Just now a feeling of contemptuous surprise overcame her kindliness and her aunt's training. "There's your bag on the snow, and Billy will find your cap. What does a boy want with a bag? A boy and afraid of snow!" she cried. "Help him with that harness."
Timorous and all her so questionable circle. Could it be that Mercy's mother was one of that unhappy set? And had this dear little woman-child been brought up so as to know no better than to figure in their assemblies, and go out on their morning rounds with Mrs. Light-mind and Mrs. Know-nothing?
And he assured her that nearly every animal was capable of some measure of thought and feeling, as real and meaningful to its existence, as the painful dreams and aspirations of men. At first he offered few opinions of his own, only gut-level reactions when they would not be silenced, which the woman-child must then decipher on her own.
But he understood. He had the spirit of adventure himself one could see it at a glance the spirit that instinctively shuns yesterday and all its works and wings eagerly into tomorrow, unknown, different, new therefore better. But this girl, this child-woman or was she rather woman-child? penniless, with nothing but two eggs between her and starvation, alone, without plans, without experience
But beneath his breath he made this vow. 'So long as there is life inside me, you will never be alone. He moved away, unable to face the apparition of Winter's resistance to his life and to his dreams. To love so deeply, and with so little hope..... Kalus fed the tiger with the reserves the woman-child brought him.
With a glance of terror at Nicie she rose, and they went up through the larches together. I will not spend my labour upon a reproduction of the verbal torrent of wrath, wounded dignity, disgust, and contempt, with which the father assailed his shrinking, delicate, honest-minded woman-child. For Nicie, he dismissed her on the spot.
However, all at once everything was spoiled, for her fairy castle of illusion or a higher reality was demolished, and that not by any blow of practicality, but by pity and sentiment. Ellen was a woman-child, and suddenly she struck the rock upon which women so often wreck or effect harbor, whichever it may be.
Isn't it rather a delicate mat " "Don't, Robert, don't discourage me. It's going to be such a beautiful doll! And you needn't tell me that poor little eleven-year-old woman-child won't hold out her empty arms for it. Robert, you're a minister; would it be wrong to give it to her STRAIGHT?" "Straight, dear?" "Yes; without saying anything to her aunt Olivia. Tell me. Rhoda's gone.
You must be ready to leave as soon as you hear the sounds of our battle. Travel as far and as fast as you can; carry the cub if you must. We will not have another chance. .. 'Very well. Her voice was soft and without hope. 'I will do as you say. Who are the friends I am to meet? 'A woman-child and her mate. She was brought here by Skither, and is like no other.
They may all put on the glorious crown of womanhood. They may make their lives grand in womanly virtue. There is in every woman-child the seed of womanhood. She may water and nourish that seed till it shall blossom in her soul and make her spiritually beautiful.
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