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The First Offence.
out his threat , uttered a scream of distress , and , flinging herself on the grass , wept as though her little heart would break . The old man who had been watching them at their play , rose quickly and hurried to the spot to ascertain the cause of the disturbancebut ere he could reach them the boy
, had run away , and poor Mabel's sobs prevented her giving anything like an intelligible answer to his questions ; but the mother ' s quick ear had caught the sound of the childish cry of sorrow , and , running into the garden , she took her in her arms , and by dint of encouragement and consolation ascertained the cause of her tears . " Naughty wicked boy
, he shan't play with you any more , dear , and Mamma will Duy J ou a new doll to-morrow , " she said , kissing again and again the pretty face of her weeping child . " What is it , my dear , I did ' nt understand ? " asked the old man .
" Why , father , little Freddy Osborne , in a fit of passion , has broken the poor child ' s doll . Good-for-nothing little fellow , he shall not come in here any more . Don't cry , mamma ' s darling , you shall have a much better doll than that one , " and the mother carried her child into the house , to distract her attention from her shattered favourite bv
some other amusement . Mabel was the only child of a young widowed mother , and perhaps a little spoiled ; but it was a difficult thing to help spoiling ( if extreme indulgence and affection must be so called , ) so gentle and engaging a child . By rich and poor relatives and friends she was voted the gentlest , truest
hearted , loveliest little girl in all the country round , and by none was she more loved than by the wilful passionate boy who was the cause of her present sorrow . He had come with his parents to live next door to the Wilmots , a child of three years old , when Mabel was born , and to him there was no greater treat than to be allowed to look at the
little soft velvety baby , as he called it , examine its little hands and feet , with their tiny nails , and occasionally to sit in nurse ' s chair and hold it " just a minute . " From this early age they had been inseparable , and the first words she uttered distinctly were , " little boy . " The affection of the children for each other cemented a
friendshi p between the parents , but one which would not have been of long duration had each heard what the other said of them . They never parted without deploring the
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The First Offence.
out his threat , uttered a scream of distress , and , flinging herself on the grass , wept as though her little heart would break . The old man who had been watching them at their play , rose quickly and hurried to the spot to ascertain the cause of the disturbancebut ere he could reach them the boy
, had run away , and poor Mabel's sobs prevented her giving anything like an intelligible answer to his questions ; but the mother ' s quick ear had caught the sound of the childish cry of sorrow , and , running into the garden , she took her in her arms , and by dint of encouragement and consolation ascertained the cause of her tears . " Naughty wicked boy
, he shan't play with you any more , dear , and Mamma will Duy J ou a new doll to-morrow , " she said , kissing again and again the pretty face of her weeping child . " What is it , my dear , I did ' nt understand ? " asked the old man .
" Why , father , little Freddy Osborne , in a fit of passion , has broken the poor child ' s doll . Good-for-nothing little fellow , he shall not come in here any more . Don't cry , mamma ' s darling , you shall have a much better doll than that one , " and the mother carried her child into the house , to distract her attention from her shattered favourite bv
some other amusement . Mabel was the only child of a young widowed mother , and perhaps a little spoiled ; but it was a difficult thing to help spoiling ( if extreme indulgence and affection must be so called , ) so gentle and engaging a child . By rich and poor relatives and friends she was voted the gentlest , truest
hearted , loveliest little girl in all the country round , and by none was she more loved than by the wilful passionate boy who was the cause of her present sorrow . He had come with his parents to live next door to the Wilmots , a child of three years old , when Mabel was born , and to him there was no greater treat than to be allowed to look at the
little soft velvety baby , as he called it , examine its little hands and feet , with their tiny nails , and occasionally to sit in nurse ' s chair and hold it " just a minute . " From this early age they had been inseparable , and the first words she uttered distinctly were , " little boy . " The affection of the children for each other cemented a
friendshi p between the parents , but one which would not have been of long duration had each heard what the other said of them . They never parted without deploring the