id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt oliphant-valentine-1875 oliphant oliphant-valentine-1875 1875 .txt text/plain 192813 8350 79 Lady Eskside received her son with the child by her side, going forward to meet him with little Val clinging to her hand; but when she forgot Val and threw her arms round her own boy whom she had not seen for so long, the child, bewildered, shifted his grasp to her gown, which he held fast, somewhat appalled as well as jealous at the appearance of this new-comer. He had not touched the child or spoken to him, except that unfriendly touch; and little Val stood by his grandmother's knee, still clutching her dress, looking on with a bewildered sense of something adverse to himself which was going on over his head, but which he did not understand. cache/oliphant-valentine-1875.txt txt/oliphant-valentine-1875.txt