Miser Farebrother, being entirely wrapped up in his money-bags, gave the entire household into the care of Mrs. Pamflett, one of its items being the motherless child Phoebe.
To the last named one-fifth had been willed in recognition of the loving care she had bestowed upon the testator's two motherless sons, each of whom was to receive two-fifths of the father's estate.
In truth, however, it was the living bereaved father who turned in the bewilderment of his grief to the "dear patient heart" of his sister, to find a second mother for his two motherless boys.
Hence, I don't hope to give yeh any idee of the sound that eckered over northern Illinois from them two cars o' motherless waifs.
There was a motherless Russian family, consisting of the father and six children, the oldest a girl of thirteen and the youngest a five-month-old boy.
It is these motherless families that make us realize how many tasks and responsibilities fall to the lot of the mother.
A widower, named McClellan, was living at this time in Payson who had two motherless girls, aged eleven and thirteen.
Still, her heart yearned over the little helpless, motherless girls.
It was his one redeeming feature, his love for the motherless girl, and although his way of showing it was more than open to criticism, it was true he loved her with a deep, strong affection.
She was the delight of his old age, the center of all his affections, this motherless child of his dead brother.
He loved this motherless girl who was fighting the battle of life single-handed against overwhelming odds, with all the strength of his nature.
She pitied from the bottom of her heart this motherless girl who had come to her, in spite of her courage and almost mannish independence, for that sympathy and advice which, at certain moments, the strongest woman cannot do without.
She knew one, she said, a poor motherless boy,-- she would be so glad to give him a helping hand.
My Father, with the young widower's embarrassment when confronted by his motherless children, solved the problem the existence of my Sister and myself was to him by putting us where he knew we were safe and well out of his way.
Come to me; you poor motherless boy, and let me take your grief and help you carry it.
He had a sacred charge to fulfil in care for the little motherless daughter whom his dying wife had put into his arms with her last loving smile.
Six little motherless ones--only think--and as bad as they can possibly be; for poor Lucilla was no manager.
The boys just then were bringing up a motherlesslamb by hand and they would put it with the sheep, and to feed it during the day were obliged to catch a ewe with milk.
But the women had a tender feeling for him, because, although motherless and very poor, he yet contrived to be always clean and neat.
Mrs Brandon's was a genuine feeling of affection for the gentle motherless girl who strove so hard and not unsuccessfully to gain the love of her pupils.
It was to the care of such a father as this, in the midst of the rude and uncongenial society of the lonely manufacturing village, that six motherless children, five daughters and one son, were left in the year 1821.
From what I can glean from the papers, she seems quite devoted to those poor little motherless girls of Hesse.
When there is a family of motherless children, and the father is himself young, it seems hard to require him to live alone for the rest of his life," she would allow candidly.
Mrs. Eads, who had been caring for my baby sister, five months old, arrived three days later and then Mrs. Whitman took the motherless little one in charge and she grew to be a fine baby.
He was actually thinking of her again, and not, as he had meant to do, of himself and his poor, motherless children.
So Dora stayed, and the timid servants, as they sat together in the shadowy twilight, felt not half so lonely when they heard her gentle voice singing the motherless babe to sleep.
Neither had Edward quite forgotten his promise of enlisting Mrs. Arundel's sympathies in aid of the motherless little girl.
It was he who had blighted the life of his penniless girl; it was his fault that no suitors came to woo his motherless child.
There was no tender yearning in Olivia Marchmont's heart towards the motherless girl.
Kimball, the latter's wife taking in charge his motherless babes.
They lived but three hours and Emma Smith took the motherless Murdock twins in the fond hope that they would fill the void in her life occasioned by the loss of her own.
Quickly she told me that she was motherless and also that she had been home from an Eastern school only about twenty-four days.
Who does not pity this worse than motherless child?
Sixthly, a motherless baby is cared for as tenderly as if she was a little sister.
We have already noted the two little motherless daughters of Domine Michaelius who were so hard put to it for a nurse.
Apparently, on the plea of having four motherless children, he escaped the infliction of punishment and continued alternately {95} to amuse and to outrage the respectable burghers of New Amsterdam.
