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It had a separate being, but it was his own child His flesh

and blood vibrated to it He caught the baby to his breast with

his passionate, clapping laugh And the infant knew him

As the newly-opened, newly-dawned eyes looked at hinize him Then he was

verified The child knew hihter

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with a triuh

The golden-brown eyes of the child gradually lit up and

dilated at the sight of the dark-glowing face of the youth It

knew its htest, sharpest little ecstasy was for the father

It began to be strong, to orously and freely, to irl now Already it knew his

strong hands, it exulted in his strong clasp, it laughed and

crohen he played with it

And his heart grew red--hot with passionate feeling for

the child She was not much more than a year old when the second

baby was born Then he took Ursula for his own She his first

little girl He had set his heart on her

The second had dark blue eyes and a fair skin: it was wen, people said The hair was fair But they forgot Anna's

stiff blonde fleece of childhood They called the newcoer She did not