![]() He was very happy in the large, warm bed, with those soft arms about him. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She stretched out her arms, and the child nestled by her side. She opened the door of a room on the floor below and took the child over to a bed in which a woman was lying. ![]() She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her arms, and carried him downstairs. ![]() She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. ![]() The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. ![]()
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