There's too much of old Sam about me to admit of a doubt," and half spitefully, half playfully she touched the spot in the center of her forehead known as her birthmark.
When not excited it could scarcely be discerned at all, but the moment she was aroused, the delicate network of veins stood out round and full, forming what seemed to be a tiny hand without the thumb.

It showed a little now in the firelight, and Mrs.Worthington shuddered as she glanced at what brought so vividly before her the remembrance of other and wretched days.

Adaline observed the shudder and hastened to change the conversation from herself to Hugh, saying by way of making some amends for her unkind remarks: "It really is kind in him to give me a home when I have no particular claim upon him, and I ought to respect him for that.

I am glad, too, that Mr.Stanley made it a condition in his will that if Hugh ever married, he should forfeit the Spring Bank property, as that provides against the possibility of an upstart wife coming here some day and turning us, or at least me, into the street.
Say, mother, are you not glad that Hugh can never marry even if he wishes to do so, which is not very probable." "I am not so sure of that," returned Mrs.Worthington, smoothing, with her small, fat hands the bright worsted cloud she was knitting, a feminine employment for which she had a weakness.

"I am not so sure of that.