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It see forth more violently than usual; and she could be heard outside la in a loud and hter!" she said, "hter, my poor, dear little child, so I shall never see thee more! It is over! It always seems to me that it happened yesterday! My God! ive her to me than to take her away so soon Did you not know that our children are part of ourselves, and that a er believes in God? Ah! wretch that I aone out that day! Lord! Lord! to have taken her from me thus; you could never have looked ather at hed as she suckled, when I made her tiny feet creep up my breast to my lips? Oh! if you had looked at that, my God, you would have taken pity on my joy; you would not have taken froered, in my heart! Was I then, Lord, so miserable a creature, that you could not look atme?--Alas! Alas! here is the shoe; where is the foot? where is the rest? Where is the child? My daughter! ive her back toto thee, h? Give her back to me one day, one hour, one minute; one minute, Lord! and then cast me to the demon for all eternity! Oh! if I only knehere the skirt of your gar to it with both hands, and you would be obliged to give me back my child! Have you no pity on her pretty little shoe? Could you condein! good Virgin of heaven! my infant Jesus has been taken from me, has been stolen from me; they devoured her on a heath, they drank her blood, they cracked her bones! Good Virgin, have pity upon hter! What is it to el, I want my child! I am a lioness, I want my whelp Oh! I rithe on the earth, I will break the stones with my forehead, and I will damn myself, and I will curse you, Lord, if you keep my child from me! you see plainly that ood God no ive hter to warm me like a sun! Alas! Lord my God Alas! Lord hter ion for the love of her, and I beheld you through her s into heaven Oh! if I could only once, just once le time, put this shoe on her pretty little pink foot, I would die blessing you, good Virgin Ah! fifteen years! she will be grown up now! --Unhappy child! what! it is really true then I shall never see her o there myself Oh! what misery to think that here is her shoe, and that that is all!"