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Updated: June 20, 2025
She has only one blemish the same scar is upon her bosom that is upon mine, and which I have heard you say was upon the bosom of my mother the birthmark of the three spears. "'I can not write any more. My hand trembles so that I can scarcely hold the pen. "'Good-bye, Doctor Bryan. Never forget your poor, heart-broken ALICE.
As the last crimson tint of the birthmark that sole token of human imperfection faded from her cheek, the parting breath of the now perfect woman passed into the atmosphere, and her soul, lingering a moment, near her husband, took its heavenward flight. Then a hoarse, chuckling laugh was heard again!
It was a little note that mamma, though ignorant of the circumstances, had so specially recommended in the desolate weeks; had commanded, offered bribes for, cried for with real tears, blustered and threatened for with a purpling birthmark.
So it was he came to cherish those two fancies before alluded to: that the ominous birthmark she had carried from infancy might fade and become obliterated, and that the age of complete maturity might be signalized by an entire change in her physical and mental state. He held these vague hopes as all of us nurse our only half-believed illusions.
A man came to me once to cure what he was determined to believe was a balsam on his baby's nose. The birthmark to him resembled that tree. More than one had given currency if not credence to the belief that the reason why the bull's-eye was so hard to hit in one of our running deer rifle matches was that we had previously charmed it.
"And, Aylmer, spare me not, though you should find the birthmark take refuge in my heart at last." Her husband tenderly kissed her cheek, her right cheek, not that which bore the impress of the crimson hand.
He was an old man, with an expression full of that large tenderness which seems the birthmark of the true physician, and he lingered over his task, as if unwilling to face what lay beyond. At last he rose and laid the stethoscope carefully on the table, letting his fingers linger over the task.
They talked together rapidly, and one of them pointed to the moon-shaped birthmark which you see I have upon my neck, for it was hot weather, and I was wearing a low-cut frock. It was because of this mark that my father named me Luna. The elder of the two said in broken English: "'What is your name, pretty little girl? "I told him it was Luna Holmes.
So it was he came to cherish those two fancies before alluded to that the ominous birthmark she had carried from infancy might fade and become obliterated, and that the age of complete maturity might be signalized by an entire change in her physical and mental state. He held these vague hopes as all of us nurse our only half-believed illusions.
"She's got a b-b-big purple birthmark on her neck." "Magnonia," Brinnaria proposed. "She's far away, in Britain, with her father and mother; might as well be out of the world." Brinnaria was at a loss. She meditated. "Gavinna!" she said at last. "She has a bad squint and you know it," laughed Flexinna. "Why don't you think of an eligible c-c-candidate?"
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