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...o an Hi-ber-ni-an. And he stepped out on the shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water; and he marr... ...of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, ‘My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked 22 Just So Stories me; all my aunts and uncles have spa... ...ail. ‘That is odd,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘be- cause my father and my mother, and my uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other aunt, the Hippopo... ...said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but my father has spanked me, my mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall aunt, the Ostrich, and my tal... ... and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises. She sai... ... attend to me,’ said Painted Jaguar, ‘be- cause this is very important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him into the water and... ...at this other is Tortoise?’ ‘But I am Tortoise,’ said Slow-and-Solid. Your mother was quite right. She said that you were to scoop me out of my shell ... ...again you’ll find that I didn’t say anything of the kind. I said that your mother said that you were to scoop me out of my shell,’ said Slow-and-Solid... ...don’t believe it,’ said Painted Jaguar. ‘You’ve mixed up all the things my mother told me to do with the things that you asked me whether I was sure t...

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...dbourne. Sir Edward Merton was brother to Mr. Woodbourne’s first wife, the mother of Elizabeth, Katherine, and Helen; he had been Mr. Woodbourne’s pri... ... the ardent Eliza- beth herself. Anne eagerly read Elizabeth’s note to her mother, and waited her consent to the scheme which it pro- posed. ‘Well, Ma... ...asant beforehand.’ 11 CHARLOTTE M YONGE ‘You mean the Hazelbys,’ said her mother. ‘Yes, Mamma,’ replied Anne; ‘I am rather surprised to hear that the... ...y little might make it ap- pear that we wished to set her against her step-mother’s relations.’ ‘Oh! that would never do,’ said Anne, ‘but I am afraid... ...w what you mean,’ said she; ‘I used to feel something of the kind with her mother.’ ‘What a wonderful person Aunt Katherine must have been!’ cried Ann... ...y Merton; ‘though Lizzie’s whole countenance and air is almost exactly her mother’s, yet there is nothing about Kate but her voice, which they have in... ...llness, it was painful to see how the poor child missed her. And after her mother died, though Helen had grown strong and healthy, old Margaret still ... ...ret still made her the pet; and uncertain nurs- ery treatment, without her mother’s firm kindness, was not the best cure for such a temper as hers.’ ‘... ...erton’s delighted eyes, as on the 27th of August, she, with her father and mother, came to the top of a long hill, about five miles from Abbeychurch. ...

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...nterest. She was not going to adore her child. But she had what the modern mother so often has in the place of spontaneous love: a profound sense of d... ... for her husband. But so it was. And so it often is. The responsibility of mother- 11 England, My England hood was the prime responsibility in Winifr... ...emed to link her up again in a circuit with her own family. Her father and mother, herself, and her child, that was the human trinity for her. Her hus... ...eapon between herself and Egbert. What did she want—what did she want? Her mother once said to her, with that characteristic touch of irony: ‘Well, de... ...erhaps not so unpleasant as most. Why do you take it amiss, my child?’ The mother was subtler than her children, they very rarely knew how to answer h... ...nd adored him. ‘Daddy! Daddy!’ They could do as they liked with him. Their mother would have ruled them. She would have ruled them passionately, with ... ...pirit, and left her only to command their behaviour. A thankless lot for a mother. And her children adored him, adored him, little knowing the empty b... ...k, the marsh, the water that might not be pure—one thing and another. From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksi... ...blonde, never-still little girls. Behind the girls was the father, against mother and nurse. And so it was. 18 D. H. Lawrence ‘If you don’t come quic...

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...atiently reared this sallow, sickly boy, for whom she had the devoted love moth- ers feel for such changeling creatures. Her death—she was a Casteran ... ... Saints of the Roman Church. Mademoiselle Dinah Piedefer was placed by her mother in one of the best schools in Bourges, that kept by the De- moiselle... ...play a greater part in the world than a mere plebe- ian, the daughter of a mother who was dependent on the settlement of Piedefer’s estate. Dinah, hav... ...s she could hope for from the estate of La Hautoy when divided between the mother and daughter, would be a mere trifle in comparison with the expenses... ...h her daughter. The com- bined fortunes of Monsieur de la Baudraye and his mother- in-law, who had been content to accept an annuity of twelve hundred... ...udraye was first seen walking on the Mall in a blue velvet dress, with her mother in black velvet, there was quite an excitement in Sancerre. This dre... ...aye, thus guarded by three passions, and always under the eye of her pious mother, escaped the malignity of slander. It was so evident to all Sancerre... ... not been as carefully guarded in her early married life as she was by her mother, whose pres- ence never weighed upon her till the day when she wante... ... dresses made at home by the best needlewoman in the neighborhood; and her mother, her husband, and her friends pronounced her charming in these inexp...

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...- table lapse of years, causes but a natural sigh or two, because even his mother feared that he could not keep it always. But after a young man has b... ...ick tissue across the circular brim. An old family banner, tattered by the moths, drooped from the vaulted roof. In niches there were some mediaeval b... ...nance, 60 The Marble Faun V ol 2 from his brother man, but from woman—his mother, his sister, or his wife. Be Donatello’s friend at need, therefore, ... ...he prosperity, with which so kindly a climate, and so fertile a portion of Mother Earth’s bosom, should have filled them, one and all. But possibly th... ...cause the mild face of the Ma- donna promised him to intercede as a tender mother be- twixt the poor culprit and the awfulness of judgment. It was bea... ...serve, indeed, how tender was the soul of man and woman towards the Virgin mother, in rec- ognition of the tenderness which, as their faith taught the... ...oped to behold again. Here they met shabby men, and the careworn wives and mothers of the people, some of whom guided chil- dren in leading strings th... ...s shrine, but a child lifting its tear-stained face to seek comfort from a mother. CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER... ...red to call before us the august forms of Apostles and Saints, the Blessed Mother of the Redeemer, and her Son, at his death, and in his glory, and ev...

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...ief, her arms red and bare, drops her knitting and calls her father or her mother, one of whom comes forward and sells you what you want, phlegmatical... ...f this year, —that of Madame de la Gaudiniere, born de la Bertelliere, the mother of Madame Grandet; that of old Monsieur de la Bertelliere, her grand... ...grandfather; and, lastly, that of Madame Gentillet, her grandmother on the mother’s side: three inheritances, whose amount was not known to any one. T... ...rence; like the Medici, the Cruchots had their Pazzi. Madame des Grassins, mother of a son twenty-three years of age, came assiduously to play cards w... ...lle Grandet to bear the chilly mornings and evenings of April and October. Mother and daughter took charge of the family linen, and spent their days s... ...t of work- ing-women, that if Eugenie wished to embroider a collar for her mother she was forced to take the time from sleep, and deceive her father t... ...old to-day, the child; we must soon begin to think of it.” Eugenie and her mother silently exchanged a glance of in- telligence. Madame Grandet was a ... ...er, he never failed to say as he buttoned his breeches’ pocket: “ And you, mother, do you want anything?” “My friend,” Madame Grandet would answer, mo... ...rr of Nanon’s spinning-wheel, sincere only upon the lips of Eugenie or her mother; this triviality mingled with impor- tant interests; this young girl...

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...t Louis XIV., how- ever gigantic the fortunes of the Grand Monarch loomed in the future, was William, Prince of Orange, son of Will- iam II., and gran... ... perfection. His exer- 41 Dumas tions, indeed, were crowned with a most magnificent re- sult: he produced three new tulips, which he called the “Jane... ...with his feet resting on the foot-bar of the table, and his elbows on the cover, looking with intense delight on three suckers which he had just detac... ...d himself that on that very morning the earth had been disturbed. In fact, whilst Boxtel was lying in bed, Cornelius had gone down to his garden, had ... ...ter exactitude and care than the first commercial houses of Amsterdam their ledgers, Boxtel read these lines: — “To-day, 20th of August, 1672, I have ... ...ing to my instructions; and as to the third sucker,” — Cornelius here heaved a deep sigh, — “watch over it as a miser over his first or last piece of ... ...our time.” “Y es, it will,” said Rosa; “but never mind. Y our tulip is my daughter. I shall devote to it the same time as I should to a child of mine,... ...bout it, and about yourself, won’t you, Rosa? I care very much for 134 The Black Tulip the daughter, as you called it just now, but I care even much ... ...tion. “She? Well, my daughter, the tulip,” said Rosa. “What!” cried Cornelius, “you give me permission, then?” “I do,” said Rosa, with the tone of an ...

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... eaten; and none may refuse him the same. Lair-Right is the right of the Mother. From all of her 21 Rudyard Kipling year she may claim One haunch... ... the great Himalayas. Then Purun Bhagat smiled, for he remembered that his mother was of Rajput Brahmin birth, from Kulu way—a 25 Rudyard Kipling Hil... ...the langurs frisked among the branches feathered with light snow, till the mother-monkeys brought their sad-eyed little babies up from the warmer vall... ...hence- forward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him. But it is not ea... ... was to go to the home-cave, and sleep for a day and a night. Then he told Mother Wolf and Father Wolf as much as they could under- stand of his adven... ... no one dreamed of going to sleep, and from time to time, during the talk, Mother Wolf would throw up her head, and sniff a deep snuff of satisfac- ti... ...ay Brother here,” Mowgli said, at the end, “I could have done nothing. Oh, mother, mother! if thou hadst seen the black herd-bulls pour down the ra- v... ...econd Jungle Book stones at me!” “I am glad I did not see that last,” said Mother Wolf stiffly. “It is not my custom to suffer my cubs to be driven to... ...e. “Baloo and Bagheera both echoed: “Leave Men alone.” Mowgli, his head on Mother Wolf ’s side, smiled content- edly, and said that, for his own part,...

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...n Guadalajara. He lived in one of the remodelled ‘dobe cottages, where his mother kept house for him. His wife had died some five years before this ti... ...t to being held here,” observed Presley. “Gives you a chance to visit your mother and the little girl.” “And precisely they choose this day to go up t... ...eep fatigue. It was the season after the harvest, and the great earth, the mother, after its period of reproduction, its pains of labour, delivered of... ...a live-oak near the steps Harran had built a little sum- mer house for his mother. To the left of the ranch house itself, toward the County Road, was ... ...ot even in sight. That was below the horizon. As Harran came up he saw his mother at breakfast. The table had been set on the porch and Mrs. Derrick, ... ... bicycle lamp, filling it with oil, adjusting the wicks. Harran kissed his mother and sat down in a wicker chair on the porch, removing his hat, runni... ... his yellow hair. Magnus Derrick’s wife looked hardly old enough to be the mother of two such big fellows as Harran and Lyman Derrick. She was not far... ...th his difficult breathing, clinking against the vest buttons of imitation mother-of-pearl. S. Behrman was the banker of Bonneville. But besides this ... ...s eldest son, had never taken kindly to- ward ranch life. He resembled his mother more than he did Magnus, and had inherited from her a distaste for a...

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......................................................................... 317 MOTHER TO BABE ............................................................... ... dropt A se’nnight—to my Nancy’s bed I brought to make my girl a gift: The mothers of them both were dead: And both to bless it was my drift, By givin... ...She joined her hands and prayed the same, That she “might meet her father, mother, Sister Bess, and each dear brother, And with them, if it might be, ... ...aning of the deep! The use of winds and waters learn! ’Tis not to make the mother weep For sons that never will return; ’Tis not to make the nations s... ...loveliness unite. Born from the first blind yearning of the earth T o be a mother and give happy birth, Ere yet the northern sun such rapture brings, ... ...hrice heard Chaunticlere. T ender to tearfulness—childlike, and manly, and motherly; Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English gr... ...ce which to a father’s eye Was balm for all anxiety; That smile which to a mother’s heart Went swifter than the swallow’s dart! O happy homes! that st... ...pported by its strong desire Beats up its native air and leaves The tender mother’s nest. Great music under heaven is made, And in the track of rushin... ...rimrose peeps. But full of these warm-whispering beams, Like Memnon in his mother’s eye, – Aurora! when the statue stone Moaned soft to her pathetic t...

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...resence of Jupiter in full dress wasted that poor imprudent Semele—a giddy moth of a crea- ture who ruined herself by venturing out of her natural atm... ...looking, polite, and prosy—the young ladies blonde, timid, and in pink—the mothers grand, beautiful, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked i... ...cky modestly said, casting down her eyes. “I taught it in a school, and my mother was a Frenchwoman.” Lady Grizzel was won by her humility and was mol... ...that he was not rich enough to send the child to a good public school; his mother that Briggs was a capital mistress for him, and had brought him on (... ...cousin’s departure came. The elder Rawdon was thankful for the fondness of mother and daughter. The very best and honestest feelings of the man came o... ... anything like her? If she would but like the boy! Rawdon thought. But the mother and son never could be brought together. And it was while Rawdon’s m... ...and for which he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighte... ...atally with me,” Rawdon said with a bro- ken voice, “and as the boy has no mother, I must leave him to you and Jane, Pitt—only it will be a comfort to... ... came up to salute him, and he kissed them in his usual frigid manner. The mother took both of them close to herself, and held a hand of each of them ...

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... altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contriv ance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business t... ... threads. This rag of scarlet cloth—for time, and wear, and a sacrilegious moth had reduced it to little other than a rag—on careful examination, assu... ... reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor—to bring his mouldy and moth eaten lucubrations before the public. “Do this,” said the ghost of Mr.... ...even generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and br... ...ngeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison. When the young woman—the mother of this child—stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be... ...lse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, whic... ... remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint... ...erend white beard that flowed over the old fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother’s, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wo... ...nvulsive a force that the poor babe ut tered another cry of pain. But the mother did not seem to hear it. At his arrival in the market place, and som...

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...- panded stiffly. In the middle was a long rounded body like the body of a moth, and on this Mr. Butteridge could be seen sitting astride, much as a m... ...sed. “Me name’s Butteridge,” he shouted; “B-U-T-T-E-R-I-D- G-E.—Got it? Me mother was Scotch.” And having assured himself that he had been understood,... ...ed chiefly, and usu- ally with tears of tenderness in his voice, about his mother and his childhood—his mother who crowned a complete encyclopedia of ... ...tch.” She was not quite neat, but nearly so. “I owe everything in me to me mother,” he asserted—“everything. Eh!” and— ”ask any man who’s done anythin... ...he said, which rather seemed to confirm the Cape T own story, “bringing me Moth- erland the secret that would give her the empire of the world. And wh... ...a liking for kind, a pride in one’s own atmosphere, a tenderness for one’s Mother speech and one’s familiar land. Before the com- ing of the Scientifi... ...nt Kurt. Luft-lieutenant Kurt, at your service.” “But you speak English!” “Mother was English—went to school in England. After- wards, Rhodes scholar.... ... still in the air and coming round now in a wide circle to return to their mother airships. The American ironclads were no longer in column formation;... ...rmany, so spirited to Great Britain that the international attitude of the mother country to her great daughter was constantly compared in contemporar...

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...th the scents of the garden; once it blew out over the water a great white moth like a drifting magnolia petal. The nightingales had paused and the tr... ...ess. Well—perhaps Clarissa’s nurse would know where one could write to her mother; it was unlikely that even Ellie would go off without assuring some ... ...lete ripeness of feminine experience. She was looking with approval at her mother’s guest. “I’m so glad you’ve come,” she said in a small sweet voice.... ... my meals regularly?” “Why, you poor darling! Don’t you always?” “Not when mother’s away on these cures. The servants don’t always obey me: you see I’... ...ied; and he had also, for the first time since his early youth, before his mother’s death, the sense of having some one to look after, some one who wa... ...e had al- ways supposed we all were. “Oh, no, dearest: not governesses and mothers-in-law and companions, and that sort of people. They wouldn’t know ... ...e to pick up Clarissa and take her to some stuffy cure in Austria with his mother. It’s too lucky: there’s just time to telegraph him to bring my thin... ...as sworn to se- crecy it was not because it ‘worries father’ to think that mother needs to take care of her health.” She paused, hating herself for th... ...h his wife and child. He did not conceal his regret at having promised his mother to join her the next day; and added, with a wistful glance at Ellie:...

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...casions, took part in executing its judgments. How- ever good and tender a mother may be, she cannot fulfil the function of the patriarchal royalty an... ...se that has caused many a woman’s misery. The Descoings, father-in-law and mother-in-law of the doc- tor, were commission merchants in the wool-trade,... ...hout other help than patience and the trifling sum of money his father and mother sent him, he married the widow of his predecessor, Monsieur Bixiou. ... ...girl, the handsomest maiden in Issoudun, did not resemble either father or mother. Her birth had caused a lasting breach between Doctor Rouget and his... ... with the sister of the late sub-delegate, Madame Hochon, who was the god- mother of her daughter, and the only person to whom she confided her griefs... ...” “And she was right,” said the worthy Madame Hochon. After this, the poor mother grew as yellow as a quince, and her appearance did not contradict th... ...pid, paid her neither the attentions nor the respect which a son owes to a mother. Jean-Jacques Rouget was like his father, especially on the latter’s... ...ast abyss in which science flounders. Agathe bore a strong likeness to the mother of Doctor Rouget. Just as gout is said to skip a generation and pass... ...ke manner, the eldest of Agathe’s children, who physi- cally resembled his mother, had the moral qualities of his grandfather, Doctor Rouget. We will ...

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... the happy climax, my aunt did not want to see me die of a decline, and my mother, whose one unfailing cure for my malady was a novitiate, gave way be... ...with, I found no one to receive me; my heart had been schooled in vain. My mother was at the Bois de 7 Balzac Boulogne, my father at the Council; my ... ...k me to my rooms. The suite is the one which belonged to my beloved grand- mother, the Princess de Vauremont, to whom I owe some sort of a fortune whi... ...Louise-Marie de Chaulieu must be like some peasant girl, who sleeps in her mother’s bed the very morrow of her death? For to me it was as though the P... ...e and her remarks, a choice of words, which I look for in vain, even in my mother. There was subtlety in it all, and there was good-nature; the points... ...eference was the cause of more than one passage at arms between her and my mother, and nothing intensifies feeling like the icy breath of persecution.... ... day’s notice, in 1816. “Go and bid good-bye to your grandmother,” said my mother. The Princess received me as usual, without any display of feeling, ... ...it to Mlle. de Chargeboeuf, to intimate to me, through her, that my grand- mother forbade me to take the vows. I hope, sooner or later, to meet the Pr... ...ernoon when I arrived. About half-past five, Rose came and told me that my mother had returned, so I went downstairs to pay my respects to her. My mot...

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... in thriving circumstances, and said to have noble blood in his veins. His mother was Edith or Editha T urner, daughter of William T urner, Esq., of Y... ...ir masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e’er spoil’d so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention’s a... ..., The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin graced her mother’s hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) ‘Boast not my ... ..., The short thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall: How can ye, mothers, vex your children so? Some play, some eat, some cack against the... ...TION. TION. TION. TION. TION. 74 74 74 74 74 As some fond virgin, whom her mother’s care Drags from the town to wholesome country air, Just when she l... ...oyle, before his poet lays A table, 77 with a cloth of bays; And Ireland, mother of sweet singers, Presents her harp 78 still to his fingers. The fe... ...arder reason guess, Why form’d no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shad... ...lies her dangerous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part. Nature its mother, habit is its nurse; Wit, spirit, faculties, but make it worse; Reas... ...d time, in their race. Thus beast and bird their common charge attend, The mothers nurse it, and the sires defend; The young dismiss’d to wander earth...

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...no- body yet knows. Fanny had a fair night, and we are both tolerable this morning, only the yoke of correspondence lies on me heavy. I beg you will l... ...iently waited and was saved. It was a stirring three minutes, I can tell you. I forgot in talking of Saturday to tell of one incident which will parti... ...o A ’S just distinguished, 3 the AI is practically suffixed to the verb, 4 almost vow. The excur- sion has prolonged itself. I started by the Lubeck t... ... no joke of a hard time, and when my task was done, I had little taste for anything but blowing on the pipe. A few nec- essary letters filled the bowl... ... sat down to dinner at the Chinaman’s—the V errey or Doyen’s of Apia—G. and I at each end as hosts; G. ’s wife—Fanua, late maid of the village; her (... ...g, but education must be gone about in faith—and char- ity, both of which pretty nigh failed me to-day about (of all things) Carthage; 11, luncheon; a... ...e, if the tale travel! 87 V ailima Letters FRIDAY, FEB.?? 19TH? Two incidents to-day which I must narrate. After lunch, it was raining pitilessly; we... ...great Abdul, his high-caste Indian servant, imported by my wife, were sitting up for me with supper, and I suppose it was twelve before I got to bed. ... ...ele, provost of the cattle. The cattle are Jack, my horse, quite converted, my wife rides him now, and he is as steady as a doctor’s cob; Tifaga Jack,...

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...ober. But a good workman too, at the work he 17 Charles Dickens does. The mother is dead. This poor ailing little creature has come to be what she is... ...hat Veneering has said ‘We must work’; how that she is here, as a wife and mother, to entreat Lady Tippins to work; how that the carriage is at Lady T... ...p, as per agreement made with Mrs Veneering, tele- graphs to that wife and mother, ‘He’s up.’ Veneering loses his way in the usual No Thoroughfares of... ...ustard- coloured phaeton, and get up; could shrink out of the range of her mother’s rocking, and (so to speak) rescue her poor little frosty toes from... ...ad been a money- lender, who had transacted professional business with the mother of this young gentleman, when he, the latter, was waiting in the vas... ... would otherwise have disposed of his lei- sure until Doomsday. Fledgeby’s mother offended her family by marrying Fledgeby’s father. It is one of the ... ... to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you. Fledgeby’s mother’ s family had been very much offended with her for being poor, and b... ...being poor, and broke with her for becoming comparatively rich. Fledgeby’s mother’s family was the Snigsworth family . She had even the high honour to... ... Among her pre-matrimonial transactions with Fledgeby’s father, Fledgeby’s mother had raised money of him at a great disadvantage on a certain reversi...

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...r feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with h... ...h the gates to the front door. And in those days, too, he used to help her mother with her garden- ing, and hover about her while she stood on the lad... ...o live in a home that became less animated and various as she grew up. Her mother had died when she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had marri... ...y devel- oping motor business. The daughters, he had hoped, would be their mother’s care. He had no ideas about daughters. They happen to a man. Of co... ...essing affection than its brothers. It is a lovely little appendage to the mother who smiles over it, and it does things quaintly like her, gestures w... ...et to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to bat... ...solution for a time, while she lis- tened to a lark singing. “Marriage and mothering,” said Ann Veronica, with her mind crystallizing out again as the... ...iantly dressed in white or pink or amber and pre- pared to go out with her mother. She thought Alice a bit of a sneak, an opinion her brothers shared,... ... and Gwen cream and a brown sash and a long skirt and her hair up. And her mother, looking unusu- ally alert and hectic, wore cream and brown also, ma...