What would Deanie naturally be expected to do for her stepfather?

" Till late that night Johnnie laboured with her mother and stepfather, trying to show them that the mill was no fit place for the children.

Cautiously Johnnie approached the subject of pay; her stepfather had already demanded her wages, and expressed unbounded surprise that she was not willing to pass over the Saturday pay-envelope to him and let him put the money in the bank along with his other savings.

After repeated admonitions without effect, a letter was addressed to his stepfather by vote at a Faculty-meeting.

When Barnaby True was between sixteen and seventeen years old he was taken into employment in the counting-house of his stepfather, Mr. Roger Hartright, the well-known West Indian merchant, a most respectable man and one of the kindest and best of friends that anybody could have in the world.

For a short time he may have studied at the university in Cambridge; but his stepfather soon set him to learning the bricklayer's trade.

Then, my dear, if you're her father, then don't act like a stepfather!

It was wearing on the disposition to turn the leaves trying to find out how to ask somebody to pass the butter and find instead whole pages of parallel columns of translated sentences given over to such questions as "Where is the aunt of my stepfather's second cousin?" As a rule a man does not go to Europe in time of war to look up his relatives by marriage.

Owl, my stepfather, liked boats.

My stepfather had me made over to Bill Otts.

"No; I'm sure you don't," answered his future stepfather-in-law.

Mathilde, as she told Pete, had begun to understand her stepfather, but she had not progressed so far as to see in his silence anything but an unapproachable sternness.

" Mathilde took her stepfather's hand as it lay upon the table.

She had had no word with her as to Wayne's new position, and it came to her in a flash that it would be daring, but wise, to take the matter up in the presence of her stepfather.

"That's just what Mr. Farron said you would say at finding that Mama was dressed in time," exclaimed Mathilde, casting an admiring glance at her stepfather.

Dudley's father had died when he was a baby, but his mother had married again in India; and upon her death which occurred not long after, his stepfather had sent him home to his grandmother.

He has got a stepfather, so when he grows up he will go out to India, I expect, to live with him, but we don't talk of it, and we pretend we're never going to leave each other.

"You must make the most of David while he is with you, for I have heard from his stepfather this morning, and he wishes him sent to school at once.

" "It is your stepfather's wish," put in Miss Bertram; "you ought to be willing to obey him.

My stepfather was mean to her and beat her, caused some of their deaths.

The two earlsthey were stepson and stepfather by the wayhad for years been at fierce feud, a feud which had desolated the greater part of the South of Ireland.

Her stepfather's strength had been a proverb in the town, and many a hasty citizen had felt the strength of his arm.

This is the reason why I used to have such fearful crises once in a while in my dumb life, as when I was treated so kindly by Captain Sproule just after my stepfather whipped me; or when I nearly killed Ace, my fellow-driver, on the canal in my first and successful rebellion; or when I used to grow white, and cry like a baby in my fights with rival drivers.

I saw your mother and your stepfather and your friend Miss Marlay.

"For a long time she kept house for her stepfather, and took care of him when he was ill; but after he died it came out that he had spent all her money.