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Excerpt from Olive: A Novel
Perhaps the good soul's clasp was the tenderer, and her warm heart throbbed the warmer to the new-born child, for a passing remembrance of her own two fatherless babes, who now slept - as close together, as when, twin laddies, they had nestled in one mother's bosom - slept beneath the wide Atlantic which marks the sea boy's~ grave.
Nevertheless, the memory was now grown so dim with years, that it vanished the moment the infant waked, and began to cry. Rocking to and fro, the nurse tuned her cracked voice to a long-forgotten lullaby something about a boatie. It was stopped by a hand on her shoul der, followed by the approximation of a face which, in its bland gravity, bore M.D. On every line.
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