If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

She wished that she could talk to her mother about it.

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

`` Sally '', admonished her mother, `` you've got all evening to visit with Dan.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

Her mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

Penny knew him better, on her part.

Mama knew she was playing her son's favorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not disturb her.

Mama knew this doll was meant to help Mrs. Coolidge overcome her grief by turning her eyes to the future.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.

He felt her irritability did not concern him, yet he knew he would not care even if it did.

He could not make out, but he knew that again she was scratching her nose.

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

There is a death in all partings, she knew, and promptly put it out of her mind.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

That girl last night, what was her name??

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Gorton appeared for her, however, and what he told the magistrates must have been plenty, for he was charged with deluding the court, fined, and told to leave the colony within fourteen days.

But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

She showed us what had happened to her.

The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar??

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.