"I only know that unfortunately the poor people use these kind of cordials too readily.

I should not like to decide whether in a case like this it is true kindness or not." "What a pretty child, Mr.Ford; what a pity that it must die!" Could it be that she who bent with such loving care over this little stranger, who touched its tiny face with her delicate lips, who held it cradled in her soft arms, was the same desperate woman who had thrown her child into the sea?
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