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It would have been a difficult matter for Mr Pontellier to define to

his own satisfaction or anyone else's wherein his wife failed in her

duty toward their children It was so which he felt rather than

perceived, and he never voiced the feeling without subsequent regret and

ample atonement

If one of the little Pontellier boys took a tu to his mother's arms for comfort; he would

more likely pick himself up, wipe the water out of his eyes and the

sand out of his ether and stood their ground in childish battles with doubled

fists and uplifted voices, which usually prevailed against the other

e encuood to button up waists and panties and to brush and part hair;

since it seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and

brushed

In short, Mrs Pontellier was not a mother-woman The mother-women

seemed to prevail that su about with extended, protecting wings when any harinary, threatened their precious brood They omen who idolized