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About nine o'clock in the evening, just when Mrs.Hewett had put the unwilling children to bed, and had given her baby a sleeping-dose--it had cried incessantly for eighteen hours,--the door of the room was pushed open.

Her husband came in.

She stood looking at him--unable to credit the evidence of her eyes.
'John!' She laid her hand upon him and stared into his face.

The man shook her off, without speaking, and moved staggeringly forward.

Then he turned round, waved his arm, and shouted: 'Let her go to the devil She cares nothing for her father.' He threw himself upon the bed, and soon sank into drunken sleep..