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Herbert blessed her humane tolerance in his alarmed heart, when

Mabel awoke froht, in extreme pain,

that culminated before dawn, in convulsions

Two physicians were hastily summoned, and when Mrs Sutton arrived

about noon, shea lifeless infant in her ar bitterly

This was the end of the lad

anticipation which were Heaven'sand comfort

to the sick and lonely heart The cunningly-fashioned robes were

never to have a wearer, the clasping ar out--of the huiven one throb; the eyes caught

one beaht ere they were sealed fast in eternal

darkness, she, who travailed with the infant through the

inexpressible agony of birth, would have been written a ht accorded her, without the cavil of

formalist or the disputations of science, to clai baby-spirit that had fluttered back

to the boso, for one

painful moment, upon the confines of the loorld As it was,

custo for what had never