The Boucher children, left motherless orphans, claimed what of Margaret's care she could bestow; and she went pretty often to see Mary Higgins, who had charge of them.
Margaret felt what was in her mother's thoughts, — a tender craving to bespeak the kindness of some woman towards the daughter that might be so soon left motherless.
He therefore assented tacitly to the proposition which Mrs. Penniman had tacitly laid down, that it was of importance that the poor motherless girl should have a brilliant woman near her.