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He wanted to give her all his love, all his passion, all his

essential energy But it could not be HeShe sat close and inable

with the child And he was jealous of the child

But he loved her, and tiive some sort of course

to his troublesome current of life, so that it did not foam and

flood and make misery He formed another centre of love in her

child, Anna Gradually a part of his strea the ht the coain

The child ceased to have sothe hted

and serene and secure, Anna was at first puzzled, then gradually

she becanant, and at last her little life settled on its

oivel, she was no more strained and distorted to support

her ed with cares she could not understand The charge of the

of the mother, had devolved elsewhere

than on her Gradually the child was freed She beca frowen most, or ether, they had a

joint activity It a, to teach her to

count, or to say her letters He remembered for her all the