no man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind, when she was a wife and a mother, but her children had a strange sympathy with him an instinctive delicacy of pity for him. what fine hidden sensibilities are touched in such a case, no echoes tell; but it is so, and it was so here. carton was the first stranger to whom little lucie held out her chubby arms, and he kept his place with her as she grew. the little boy had spoken of him, almost at the last. "poor carton! kiss him for me!"