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Updated: June 27, 2025
And at which a parent, after the example of the dams of the brute creation, is to lay aside all care and tenderness for her offspring? Is it so hard for you, my dear, to be treated like a child? And can you not think it is hard for a good parent to imagine herself under the unhappy necessity of so treating her woman-grown daughter?
Why man, should you wed Barbara Standish and raise a hand upon her as I've seen you do upon your daughters, woman-grown, I'd not answer but she'd have your life's blood for it; and if you bade her stint the measure of the corn she sold to your neighbors, she'd quit your roof and you, before you could say whiskerando! No, no, Master Allerton, best not try to mate yourself with a Standish.
Oh, well, a sucker was born every minute, he sighed to himself, and nobody was to blame; it was all a game, and only a few could win, but it was damned hard on the suckers. "How old are you, mother?" he asked. "Seventy-nine come next January." "Worked pretty hard, I suppose?" "Sense I was seven. I was bound out in Michigan state until I was woman-grown.
I hate you now." There was something so final, so convicting in her gesture of repulsion that the man's head dropped. He covered his face and uttered a groaning cry, and so lay silently sobbing, while she looked down at him woman-grown in that instant. His passion moved her to pity, not to love, and she put him aside gently and left the room without further word.
For those of our captives that were woman-grown they would exchange one for one, and for their chief Dacoma they offered to give two; for the rest they insisted on receiving two for one.
"Because I have enough to do as it is," snapped Jen, "without your butter-making when you are playing the lady down the house!" Grandmother's black eyes crackled fire. She turned threateningly to her daughter. "By my saul, Lady Lyon," she cried, "there is a stick in yon corner that ye ken, and if you are insolent to your mother I will thrash you yet woman-grown as ye are.
They see a girl, too, now woman-grown in whom the change, though less extreme, is still strikingly sadly for the worse. In both, the transformation is so complete, so retrograde, so contrary to all experience, that they can scarcely realise it. It is difficult to believe that any nature, however savage, after such pains had been taken to civilise it, could so return to itself!
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