Tears actually stood in her beautiful blue eyes.
"No, I don't," replied her mother, abruptly.

"Nobody in their sober senses could think so.

I am sorry poor Mrs.Cone lost her baby.

I know how I felt when my first baby died, but as for saying it looked like you--" "Then you don't think it did, mother ?" "It was one of the homliest babies I ever laid my eyes on, poor little thing, if it did die," said Maria's mother, emphatically.

She was completely disarmed by this time.