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"How dare you make this noise"?--I said rudely--"do you not know that I

have given orders for coreatest dignity--The picture she

your pardon" she said in a voice which was not quite steady--"I

did not know you had returned, and Madaustine while she went to the next floor--it shall not occur again!"

I longed to stay and gaze at them both--I would have liked to have

touched the baby's queer little fat fingers--I would have liked--Oh--I

know not what--And all the tih so evil would come from me and harm it--Then she

turned and carried it out of the roo myself down in my chair--

What had I done--Beast--brute--What had I done?

And will she never coain?--and will life be emptier than

ever--?

I could kill myself--

It shall not be only Suzette but six others for supper to-night--

Five aust

pigeon that I a of a woet it out of my ears