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UncasLover13
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 Posted - September 30 2004 : 9:03:01 PM
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In LOTM, there is no mention of Cora and Alice having a mother. It also doesn't say anything in the book either. Does anybody know why she isn't mentioned or if I missed anything stating that they did have a mother? I appreciate any help. 
--UL13
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Marg222
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Posted - October 01 2004 : 05:45:18 AM
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That's a very good question... I don't know it. But the girls where visiting their dad.. so, lets just imagine that their mother is just at home or something... hihi!
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Kurt
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Posted - October 01 2004 : 06:30:31 AM
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It is a bit hidden but it is in the book. Cora's mother was a mulatto from the West Indies and after she died Monro married Alice's mother who was Scottish.
viz:
I was,
maybe, such an one as yourself when I plighted my faith to
Alice Graham, the only child of a neighboring laird of some
estate. But the connection was disagreeable to her father,
on more accounts than my poverty. I did, therefore, what an
honest man should -- restored the maiden her troth, and
departed the country in the service of my king. I had seen
many regions, and had shed much blood in different lands,
before duty called me to the islands of the West Indies.
There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in
time became my wife, and the mother of Cora. She was the
daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose
misfortune it was, if you will," said the old man, proudly,
"to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who
are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a
luxurious people. Ay, sir, that is a curse, entailed on
Scotland by her unnatural union with a foreign and trading
people. But could I find a man among them who would dare to
reflect on my child, he should feel the weight of a father's
anger! Ha! Major Heyward, you are yourself born at the
south, where these unfortunate beings are considered of a
race inferior to your own."
"'Tis most unfortunately true, sir," said Duncan, unable any
longer to prevent his eyes from sinking to the floor in
embarrassment.
"And you cast it on my child as a reproach! You scorn to
mingle the blood of the Heywards with one so degraded --
lovely and virtuous though she be?" fiercely demanded the
jealous parent.
"Heaven protect me from a prejudice so unworthy of my
reason!" returned Duncan, at the same time conscious of such
a feeling, and that as deeply rooted as if it had been
ingrafted in his nature. "The sweetness, the beauty, the
witchery of your younger daughter, Colonel Munro, might
explain my motives without imputing to me this injustice."
"Ye are right, sir," returned the old man, again changing
his tones to those of gentleness, or rather softness; "the
girl is the image of what her mother was at her years, and
before she had become acquainted with grief. When death
deprived me of my wife I returned to Scotland, enriched by
the marriage; and, would you think it, Duncan! the suffering
angel had remained in the heartless state of celibacy twenty
long years, and that for the sake of a man who could forget
her! She did more, sir; she overlooked my want of faith,
and, all difficulties being now removed, she took me for her
husband." |
Yr. obt. svt.
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UncasLover13
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USA
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Posted - October 01 2004 : 8:43:59 PM
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Oh yes! Actually, I do remember reading that..but I missed the meaning! Thanks for bringing that to my attention! :)
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