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Sorasped on the sheet Her brown-grey eyes opened and looked at

him She did not know him as himself But she knew him as the

man She looked at hiot the child in her: an impersonal look, in the extrereat, scalding

peace went over hi

off into the infinite

When her pains began afresh, tearing her, he turned aside,

and could not look But his heart in torture was at peace, his

boere glad He went downstairs, and to the door, outside,

lifted his face to the rain, and felt the darkness striking

unseen and steadily upon hiht upon him silenced

him and he was overcome He turned away indoors, hu, as well as the

world of life