The stepmother of the young girl made her a little loaf of salt bread.

"But what is the matter with you, my sister?" "What has happened to me." "What revenge does your heart desire?" "Attach the daughter of my stepmother to the tail of a horse that she may be dragged in the bushes.

She never could have suspected it, but there, in that boat, sat her future stepmother in cap and apron!his own future stepmother-in-law!

Under cover of a rather wrangling discussion between Arnold and his stepmother as to having some champagne served, the older man continued to look steadily into Sylvia's eyes, with the effect of saying to her, gravely, kindly, intimately: "Yes, I am here.

So furious were her father and stepmother at her escapade that a large reward was advertised for the capture of her husband, "alive or dead," and a sentence of death had been procured from the Council of Ten in the event of his arrest.

Stepmother with 'bout as much sense as a fly.