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  1      I,       I|   flickering rays of light on the child who, with a faded red cotton
  2      I,       I|    doorway in which the shivering child was concealed, but would
  3      I,       I|       house.~ ~At this moment the child crouching in the snow began
  4      I,       I|           his lantern fall on the child's face. "What are you doing
  5      I,       I|         want my mama!" wailed the child, with a fresh burst of sobs.~ ~"
  6      I,       I|          don't - know."~ ~"A true child of Paris!" in an undertone
  7      I,       I|           elder man. Then, to the child: "Diana is the person who
  8      I,       I|         she was clad.~ ~"You poor child!" compassionately ejaculated
  9      I,       I|       true; but we can't take the child to our apartments. You know
 10      I,       I|         young man. "This innocent child has been placed in our way
 11      I,       I|           with you." Then, to the child: "Don't be afraid, little
 12      I,       I|        faded tapestry.~ ~Here the child exhibited the first signs
 13      I,       I|           s got me," prattled the child.~ ~"That is different, my
 14      I,       I|          he spoke he drew off the child's wet slippers and stockings,
 15      I,       I|           this bed is!" cried the child; "just as if some one had
 16      I,       I|     mention of these dainties the child's countenance brightened;
 17      I,       I|   interposed the elder man. "That child might not be asleep."~ ~"
 18      I,       I|      overthrown."~ ~"But when the child, who is only twelve years
 19      I,       I| interposed his companion. "Is the child asleep?"~ ~"This one is;
 20      I,       I|        had made a mistake: "this" child was not asleep. She had
 21      I,       I|         curtains to see if "this" child was still asleep. The long-drawn,
 22      I,       I|          shawl in which the stray child had been wrapped. He did
 23      I,       I|          dark.~ ~To the listening child in the bed, however, it
 24      I,      II|         be with mama."~ ~Here the child in his arms began to sob
 25      I,      II|         in my arms an unfortunate child who has strayed from its
 26      I,      II|        Every Frenchman respects a child and misfortune. Is not that
 27      I,      II|      suppose you help me get this child to its home. Go to the nearest
 28      I,      II|       followed with the trembling child, whom she had carefully
 29      I,     III|       little guest. This time the child was really asleep, and opened
 30      I,     III|      naïveté of an eight-year-old child to the table, where she
 31      I,     III|    enthusiastically exclaimed the child. "She slept with me last
 32      I,     III|          A book!" interrupted the child, with a merry laugh, clapping
 33      I,     III|       charming flower!" cried the child, admiringly. "How I wish
 34      I,     III|           plant toward her.~ ~The child daintily broke off one of
 35      I,     III|         Gargantua," responded the child.~ ~"Lock the door after
 36      I,     III|        remember that."~ ~When the child was certain that the old
 37      I,     III|           a hurried hand, yet the child seemed to have no difficulty
 38      I,     III|         old gentleman clothed the child as skilfully as if he were
 39      I,     III|         main staircase," said the child, taking her companion's
 40      I,     III|           playing," whispered the child. "You go in first, and tell
 41      I,     III|          made one step toward the child, who had followed M. Cambray
 42      I,     III|       where he had found the lost child, the company listening with
 43      I,     III|           to the deliverer of her child.~ ~The countess was reclining
 44      I,     III|         to, monsieur, but about a child - a girl of perhaps twelve
 45      I,     III|         yesterday evening a stray child, and an hour later your
 46      I,     III|         of the house with another child, wrapped in the shawl which
 47      I,     III|      which had enveloped the lost child when you found her - "~ ~"
 48      I,     III|       going in search of the lost child's mother. Besides, everything
 49      I,     III|     Neither the young man nor the child concern me. It is his own
 50      I,     III|           queried Cambray.~ ~"The child you picked up in the street."~ ~"
 51      I,     III|           fainted at sight of her child?"~ ~"Is the fair Cythera'
 52      I,     III|      breast, and muttered:~ ~"The child is not to blame. Those who
 53      I,      IV|        The dignity with which the child performed her duties was
 54      I,      IV|          man has already seen the child, and would recognize her
 55      I,      IV|          chosen for myself and my child!"~ ~"A profession that yields
 56      I,      IV|           living for yourself and child?"~ ~"I might have sent the
 57      I,      IV|             I might have sent the child to a foundling asylum, and
 58      I,      IV|         in the shape of a smiling child? No, madame; we need not
 59      I,      IV|          not even to hear from my child - not even to let her know
 60      I,      IV|        sheet of paper:~ ~"MY DEAR CHILD: I am compelled to take
 61      I,      IV|           yet she was an innocent child."~ ~"Upon my word, madame,
 62     II,       I|       have been seen two or three child faces; they were on the
 63     II,       I|      good-humored, and frank as a child. She treated every one with
 64     II,      II|      tapers, and a gift for every child, - clothes, books, and sweets, -
 65     II,      II|           she added, "to send the child to the manor. We will see
 66     II,     III|       learned by beginning when a child and living in a Hungarian
 67    III,       I|           those of a much younger child. With her arched brow and
 68    III,      II|           more to be treated as a child. Mark that! To-day, as heretofore,
 69    III,      II|            innocent and alluring, child and siren.~ ~Disconcerted
 70    III,      II|          strike me?" inquired the child, half crying, half laughing.~ ~"
 71    III,      II|           me to secure it?"~ ~The child's wish was so true, so earnest,
 72    III,     III|          swelling cushions like a child in a rocking cradle. And
 73    III,     III|          the full privileges of a child. She shouted; called to
 74    III,     III|          is following you?"~ ~The child trembled violently; her
 75    III,     III|        her nervous terror, like a child that has behaved naughtily.~ ~
 76    III,      IV|       with whose appearance every child in the village was familiar.~ ~"
 77    III,      IV|     whether it was the voice of a child, a young or an old woman, "
 78    III,      IV|     tenderly as a mother over her child.~ ~"He did not hurt you
 79    III,      IV|        cove."~ ~How delighted the child was to hear these words!
 80    III,      IV|       beloved. From that hour the child became a silent and thoughtful
 81     IV,       I|           was none other than the child he had rescued from her
 82     IV,       I|      approaching fulfilment: "The child will grow to be a lovely
 83     IV,       I|     extreme solicitude he saw the child grow to womanhood, blessed
 84     IV,       I|          would he have kept her a child had it been in his power.
 85     IV,       I|        power. He treated her as a child - gave her dolls and the
 86     IV,       I|           dolls and the toys of a child; but this could not go on
 87     IV,      II|       continued melancholy in the child's face, searched among his
 88     IV,      II|          Ludwig assented, and the child skipped, humming cheerily,
 89     IV,     III|             She was yet so much a child that she would not have
 90      V,      II|           a terror for this timid child.~ ~And that they were amusing
 91     VI,       I|           order to save the royal child from death, I gave up my
 92     VI,       I|           death, I gave up my own child to danger, and carried my
 93     VI,       I|           and carried my master's child to a place of safety. My
 94     VI,       I|           place of safety. My own child I gave up to play the rôle
 95     VI,      II|       entire law as a jest - mere child's play. It begins with the
 96     VI,     III|           as if she were a little child, and, carrying her thus,
 97     VI,      IV|          extent - like those of a child who hears a wonderful fairy
 98     VI,      VI|        she held up in her hands a child's chemise and petticoat.~ ~"
 99     VI,      VI|           asked.~ ~"A dear little child, I should say," answered
100     VI,      VI|         are right - a dear little child."~ ~"Where is the child,
101     VI,      VI|           child."~ ~"Where is the child, Lisette?"~ ~"That I don'
102     VI,      VI|            What did I do with the child that wore them? Whose business
103     VI,      VI|          did with her? She was my child, and I had a right to do
104     VI,      VI|        petticoat, with the little child in them, trotting after
105     VI,      VI|          say, 'I will give up the child for so much,' then, your
106    VII,      II|          were several articles of child's clothing, such as little
107    VII,     III|          love would sacrifice her child. So soon as this war broke
108   VIII,       I|        desired to retain that the child was her daughter, and that
109   VIII,       I|        sharp rebuke from her only child was deserved.~ ~Then she
110   VIII,       I|           spy upon another little child - a persecuted and homeless
111   VIII,       I|    persecuted and homeless little child."~ ~The baroness cowered
112     IX,      IV|          shelter to your wife and child. I am little Laczko's foster-mother."~ ~
113      X,     III|         heard it, man, woman, and child, burst into tears. The invalid
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