The MOTIF of motherhood was everywhere,
and at his bedside he found--it had been put there for him by
Amanda--among much other exaltation of woman's mission, that most
wonderful of all philoprogenitive stories, Hudson's CRYSTAL AGE.
Everybody at Chexington had an air of being grouped about the
impending fact. An epidemic of internal troubles, it is true, kept
Sir Godfrey in the depths of London society, but to make up for his
absence Mrs. Morris had taken a little cottage down by the river and
the Wilder girls were with her, both afire with fine and subtle
feelings and both, it seemed, and more particularly Betty, prepared
to be keenly critical of Benham's attitude.
He did a little miss his cue in these exaltations, because he had
returned in a rather different vein of exaltation.
In missing it he was assisted by Amanda herself, who had at moments
an effect upon him of a priestess confidentially disrobed. It was
as if she put aside for him something official, something sincerely
maintained, necessary, but at times a little irksome.
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