Part,  Chapter

 1     I,       I|                   I.~ ~THE DUMB CHILD.~ ~It was about the close
 2     I,       I| opposite window, she placed the child between us. He was a pale,
 3     I,       I|         upon the subject of the child between us. She told me
 4     I,       I|        surprise run through the child's little frame; the great
 5     I,       I|         corner, I could see the child's large dark-blue eyes following
 6     I,       I|         a single man, women, or child escaped. This valley is
 7     I,      II|       out quickly!"~ ~"Save the child!" she answered; and I caught
 8     I,      II|     right hand a hard blow. The child had fainted in my arms,
 9     I,      II|        must try to restore this child. He has fainted. Give him
10     I,      II|         her "Eia Popeia" to the child of her fantasy.~ ~An aged
11     I,     III|     first time I remembered the child I had carried thither. I
12     I,     III|      than all of you."~ ~"Whose child is it, if not yours?"~ ~"
13     I,     III| practical Englishman beside the child, but incapable of arriving
14     I,     III|           As I entered, and the child caught sight of me, the
15     I,     III|   marvellous enough when a dumb child speaks; but what was my
16     I,     III|          Who is your father, my child?" I asked. "What is his
17     I,     III|       for you to get rid of the child, I can take care of him
18     I,     III|       unheard-of obstinacy in a child of such tender age some
19     I,     III|      soul?~ ~"I wonder how this child comes to speak Hungarian?"
20     I,      IV|        gone two paces, when the child dropped my hand, and crying, "
21     I,      IV| judgment, about forty.~ ~As the child ran toward him, with both
22     I,      IV|    sobbed in his joy, while the child laughed, caressed his father'
23     I,      IV|        whisper something to the child, and in an instant the whole
24     I,      IV|         to contemplate, her own child who had gone from her mute
25     I,      IV|     such a mother to seize this child, and, in the ecstasy of
26     I,      IV| necessary to extend them to her child. She breathed a cold, lifeless
27     I,      IV|        and the tiny hand of the child caressed the fur trimming
28     I,      IV|         behaviour in mother and child after such a reunion!~ ~
29     I,      IV|     nabob as the rescuer of his child was impossible! Why, the
30     I,      IV|     like these. They have their child; it is safe; and so good-bye
31     I,      IV|       Dumany. He still held the child on his arm, and, coming
32     I,      IV|   monkey or dog, instead of her child, she might well have afforded
33     I,      IV|       value the life of her own child so cheap. She did not hold
34     I,      IV|      Dumany and myself. But the child obstinately refused to leave
35     I,      IV|   little James is not your only child?" I ventured to ask.~ ~"
36     I,      IV|        little James was her own child and not a stepson, as I
37     I,       V|      had been the safety of the child.~ ~"And you have not seen
38     I,       V|     saved the life of your dear child. Let this thought comfort
39     I,       V|         James?" she said. "This child of sin and misfortune? Why,
40     I,       V|        of others. This made the child repugnant to the mother,
41     I,       V| estrangement between mother and child.~ ~I tried to quiet her.
42     I,      VI|        The father undressed the child, and put him to bed; then
43     I,      VI|         the curtains aside; the child knelt in bed, folded his
44     I,      VI|           Papa! Papa!" said the child.~ ~"What is it, darling?"
45     I,      VI|     grate, musing over what the child's innocent prattle had revealed
46    II,      IV|       trusting me with the dear child."~ ~"Tell her you will reform,
47    II,     VII|       and lightning! this is no child's play, but a high game;
48    II,      IX|       dreams! I fancied I was a child again, and rambled in the
49    II,    XVII|      was a well-formed, healthy child, and I myself had conscientiously
50    II,    XVII|         health and that of your child. But now your health is
51    II,    XVII|         fully established, your child is christened, and I have
52    II,    XVII|       saved; so is that of your child. There is no need of my
53    II,    XVII|        You may return with your child to the old home of the Dumanys,
54    II,    XVII|         world, bringing up your child and teaching him virtue,
55    II,    XVII|        love you!"~ ~"You have a child."~ ~"That child! That living
56    II,    XVII|      You have a child."~ ~"That child! That living stigma which
57    II,    XVII|        as innocent as that poor child himself. You have not sinned;
58    II,    XVII|        speak that language. The child has never loved anyone but
59    II,    XVII|       that she bent down to the child, and kissed it tenderly.~ ~"
60    II,    XVII|      the love you have borne my child!" And before he could prevent
61    II,    XVII|   mother, after a while, to the child, "it is too early yet for
62    II,    XVII|       she disappeared, with the child on her arm, through the