Read the passage: she rubbed circles on my back and caressed the hair from my face. she kissed me, brushed my tears with her fingertips, and dried my nose with the towel, or the hem of her dress. what do you understand after reading this passage?

She really loves you. She cares for you, and it's hard to come across someone this amazing. She would do anything for you.

(I think this passage is beautifully written by the way)

I am guessing the answer is:  Although they are butt heads, Negi's mother loves her dearly?

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "