[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER X 52/58
My child, you remind me of days gone by.
Come and see me again, will you? Then I shall be more able to talk to you quietly." "Ay, that I will, ma'am." And Jael colored all over with surprise, and such undisguised pleasure that Mrs.Little kissed her at parting. She had been gone a considerable time, when Henry came back; he found his mother seated at the table, eying his masterpiece with stern and bitter scrutiny. It was a picture, those two rare faces in such close opposition.
The carved face seemed alive; but the living face seemed inspired, and to explore the other to the bottom with merciless severity.
At such work the great female eye is almost terrible in its power. "It is lovely," said she.
"It seems noble.
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