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persisted in playing in the sun when they ht be under the trees She

went down and led the rotesque that she should be

her husband to

speak of him The sentiment which she entertained for Robert in no way

resembled that which she felt for her husband, or had ever felt, or ever

expected to feel She had all her life long been accustohts and emotions which never voiced theles They belonged to her and were her own, and

she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and that

they concerned no one but herself Edna had once told Madanolle

that she would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for any one

Then had followed a rather heated argument; the to the sae Edna tried

to appease her friend, to explain

"I would give up the unessential; I would give ive ivewhich I a itself to me"

"I don't knohat you would call the essential, or what you nolle, cheerfully; "but a woive her life for her children could do no more than that--your Bible

tells you so I'm sure I couldn't do more than that"