They could not be brought to see it in any other light . As their neighbours said , `` Cy Morgan never hilt up his head again after Paul married the play-acting woman . '' But perhaps it was less his humiliation than his sorrow which bowed down his erect form and sprinkled grey in his thick black hair that fifty years had hitherto spared . For Paul , forgetting the sacrifices his mother and father had made for him , had bitterly resented the letter of protest his father had written concerning his marriage . He wrote one angry , unfilial letter back and then came silence . Between grief and shame Cyrus and Deborah Morgan grew old rapidly in the year that followed . At the end of that time Elinor Morgan , the mother of an hour , died ; three months later Paul Morgan was killed in a railroad collision . After the funeral Cyrus Morgan brought home to his wife their son 's little daughter , Joscelyn Morgan . Her aunt , Annice Ashton , had wanted the baby . Cyrus Morgan had been almost rude in his refusal . His son 's daughter should never be brought up by an actress ; it was bad enough that her mother had been one and had doubtless transmitted the taint to her child . But in Spring Valley , if anywhere , it might be eradicated . At first neither Cyrus nor Deborah cared much for Joscelyn . They resented her parentage , her strange , un-Morgan-like name , and the pronounced resemblance she bore to the dark-haired , dark-eyed mother they had never seen . All the Morgans had been fair . If Joscelyn had had Paul 's blue eyes and golden curls her grandfather and grandmother would have loved her sooner . But the love came ... it had to . No living mortal could have resisted Joscelyn . She was the most winsome and lovable little mite of babyhood that ever toddled . Her big dark eyes overflowed with laughter before she could speak , her puckered red mouth broke constantly into dimples and cooing sounds .
She had ways XXXXX no orthodox Spring Valley baby ever thought of having .
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