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n, took every event with equal ht, or a miraculous fountain of milk

If she had drawn his food from herself he would not have questioned

her; if it had been her last ounce of life he would not have thanked

her the in with, he knew

nothing of her or her doings when he was asleep or on the watch And a

young oods besides his own,

while a young woman is his banker, never so rich as when he overdraws

Deprived of him by her own act, his wife in name, she was his servant

in reality His servant and, just now, his suently, only asking that he

should neither thank nor blame her It very seldoood child" at her, she had a

lu eyes True, she had her little

rewards, to be enjoyed when he could not guess that her heart

was all in a flutter, or see that her cheeks et Night and

they said their Pater Noster and Ave Maria, out of

which (although she understood them as little as he did) she did not fail

to suck the comfort he had promised her She learned also to speak

faood stead

later in her career Meanti they knelt side by

side, their arms touched, sometimes their hands strayed and joined

co where they were, as in a warirl ask of the Christian faith?