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Malcolm grew up a stirring child, under Nurse Sampson's fostering care. Not that either she or Peter, or Sonny Sampson exactly understood him.
-"Nothing tires his little limbs; from morn to night he runs and jumps and plays, he needs one to be always watching him; and for mischief, I never saw such a child, but I cannot whip him; if he is scolded he looks so penitent and wise. He repeats everything we say and knows far too much for his little head." Thus spake Mrs. Sampson to a neighbour, and they all knew that Malcolm Sampson was not her child--but true woman that she was, she never wholly gave away the secret of the child she loved. He was her child now she said, that was enough; but none the less he was a child "out of Nazareth."