"There ain't no need of your acting this way if your man has run away with another woman, and as for that child goin' with you, she sha'n't go one step with any woman that looks and acts as you do.

Actin' this way over a good-for-nothin' fellow like Jim Tenny!" Again that scourge of the spirit aroused Eva to her normal state.
She became a living, breathing, wrathful, loving woman once more.
"Don't you dare say a word against Jim!" she cried out; "not one word, Fanny Brewster; I won't hear it.

Don't you dare say a word!" "Don't you say a word against my papa!" shrilled Amabel.

Then she left Ellen and ran to her mother, and clung to her.

And Eva caught her up, and hugged the little, fragile thing against her breast, and pounced upon her with kisses, with a fury as of rage instead of love.
"She always looked like Jim," she sobbed out; "she always did.