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passion of resent up in his heart In

that moment he claimed the child

But when the milk came, and the infant sucked her breast, she

seeant bliss

"It sucks me, it sucksthe child to her breast with her two

hands covering it, passionately

And in a few moments, as she beca, unseeing eyes, and said: "Anna Victrix"

He went away, tre, and slept To her, her pains were

the wound-sain she was very happy She called the

baby Ursula Both Anna and her husband felt they ave them private satisfaction The baby was tawny

skinned, it had a curious downy skin, and wisps of bronze hair,

and the yellow grey eyes that wavered, and then becaolden-brown like the father's So they called her Ursula

because of the picture of the saint

It was a rather delicate baby at first, but soon it beca eel Anna orn out

with the day-long wrestling with its young vigour

As a little animal, she loved and adored it and was happy

She loved her husband, she kissed his eyes and nose and mouth,

and made much of him, she said his limbs were beautiful, she was

fascinated by the physical form of him