The Iron Woman
The Iron Woman
Like its great predecessor, "The Awakening of Helena Richie," this new novel is the unfolding of a spiritual struggle and a story of deep human emotion.
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; she hired a reliable woman to take charge of
him, and she was careful to appear at regular hours to nurse him.
She ordered toys for him, and as she shared the naive conviction
of her day that church-going and religion were synonymous, she
began, when he was four years old, to take him to church. In her
shiny, shabby black silk, which had been her Sunday costume ever
since it had been purchased as part of her curiously limited
trousseau she sat in a front pew, between the two children, and
felt that she was doing her duty to both of them. A sense of duty
without maternal instinct is not, perhaps, as baleful a thing as
maternal instinct without a sense of duty, but it is sterile; and
in the first few years of her bereavement, the big, suffering
woman seemed to have nothing but duty to offer to her child.
Nannie's puzzles began then. "Why don't Mamma hug my baby
brother?" she used to ask the nurse, who had no explanation to
offer. The baby brother was ready enough to hug Nannie, and his
eager, wet little kisse
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