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BrownsvilleBrownsville is the name of several places in the United States of America:Brownsville is also a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. thought.html">thought of that child always, always floating before her. She had never
once since then; they had taken him from her, carried him awav, and had
peasants in Normandy, that he had become a peasant himself, had married
handsome sum of money on him.
How often during the last forty years had she wished to go/go.html">go and see.html">see.html">see him
She always thought of that small human atom which she had held in her
I must go and see him."
But he had always stopped her and kept her from going. She would be
take advantage of her, blackmail her; she would be lost.
"What is he like?" she said.
"I do not know.html">know. I have not seen him again, either."
"Is it possible? To have a son and not to know him; to be afraid of him
continually ascending that interminable hill.
"One might take it for a punishment," she continued; "I have never had
has possessed me for forty years. You men cannot understand that. You
never see him, never have seen him! . . . Is it possible? How could
terrible existence mine has been! I have never awakened, never, do you
he? Oh, how guilty I feel toward him! Ought one to fear what the world
him, to bring him up and to show my love for him. I should certainly
suffered! Oh, how those poor, abandoned children must hate their
was deserted and silent in the dazzling light and the overwhelming heat,
the sparse yellow grass on both sides of the road.
"Sit down.html">down a little," he said.
She allowed herself to be led to the side of the ditch and sank down with
of her face, had become tangled. She wept, overcome by profound grief,
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