Had not known that we was keepin company, and never mistrusted anything particular.

Ma'am was right to better herself.

Didn't look very rugged to take care of a femily, but could get hired haalp, she calc'lated .-- The great maternal instinct came crowding up in her soul just then, and her eyes wandered until they settled on her daughter.
-- No, poor, dear woman,--that could not have been.

But I am dropping one of my internal tears for you, with this pleasant smile on my face all the time.
The great mystery of God's providence is the permitted crushing out of flowering instincts.

Life is maintained by the respiration of oxygen and of sentiments.