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louder. The child awakened, opening great black eyes, and with her
I its mouth, and her head upon its body, for she was too far gone to
was marvellous. It gasped, it fought, its little limbs struggled
baby mouth set free, it fell a-shrieking. Its cries were not like
sound of infant passion. 'Twas not a thing to let its life go
breath, and then another, and another still--the last one trembled
as the grave's self--there were only dead.html">dead embers on the hearth, the
lying stone dead, her poor head resting on her offspring.html">offspring's feet, the
Fate some awful question.
CHAPTER II--In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring
In a remote wing of the house, in barren, ill-kept rooms, the poor
and given them up, one after the other. Sir Jeoffry had not wished
then nearly always by some untoward accident. The six who had died,
they should have been fated to come into the world, and when they
The two who had not perished, she had regarded sadly day by day,
Naught but great beauty would have excused their existence in their
which would have rid him of them. But 'twas the sad ill fortune of
way but niggardly. They were pale young misses, with insignificant
they themselves seemed most likely to. Sir Jeoffry could not bear
it so happened that by chance they heard it, huddling together in
them. They had no playthings and no companions and no pleasures but
before them. A spinster who was a poor relation was the only person
from genteel starvation, she had offered herself for the place of
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