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... women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- den hags; the red, yellow, and blue flowers, whose heads were pressed toget... ...y. “The conditions are so much changed since I was a young woman.” “Surely maternity does not change,” said Mrs. Elliot. “In some ways we can learn a ... ...inued. She included them all in her forecast, she included them all in her maternity, although the party comprised William Pepper and Miss Allan, both... ...“Still, it’s the kind of book people call very clever,” Miss Allan added. “Maternity—by Michael Jessop—I presume,” Mr. Elliot put in, for he could nev...

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...the charm about it peculiar to a lonely house surrounded by water and hid- den away behind the heads of a few trees that love to grow by the water-sid... ...andant. 33 Balzac They went through the dining-room, and reached the gar- den by way of a sort of vestibule at the foot of the staircase between the ... ...flight of stone steps which adorned the garden side of the house. The gar- den itself was divided into four large squares of equal size by two paths t... ...ife, who became very necessary to me, for I lost a great deal of time over maternity cases. The stubbed wastes yielded excellent harvests, and the sup... ..., and then all at once the whole landscape grew dark and dreary. That sud- den change was like the change in my own life at this time. I received from... ...nestas, break- ing in upon the doctor, and springing to his feet with sud- den energy, a change of position that seemed to be prompted by inward dissa...

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...enge to every- body else. If one man can grow absorbed in delving his gar- den, others may grow absorbed and happy over something else. Not to be upsi... ... that it should be looked upon as ridiculous or shameful. No one speaks of maternity with his tongue in his cheek; and Whitman made a bold push to set... ...urished portly bodies upon cakes and cream! Here they all lie, to be trod- den in the mud; the large estate and the small, sounding virtue and adroit ... ...nnikin clinked, not caring who should pay; and from supping in the wolves’ den, there is but a step to hunting with the pack. And here, as I am on the... ... that horrible monster Jezebel of England; and after having predicted sud- den destruction to her rule and to the rule of all crowned women, and warne...

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...ature — the nature that is developed in earth and sky, was, in one sense, hid den from me; and all the imaginative delight wherewith it had been spir... ...d with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one anothe... ...’s birth, but had since begun to be soothed away by the softening influences of maternity. At home, within and around her mother’s cottage, Pearl wante...