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Fate had not been altogether cruel to her; it had given her a child. "Isn't he a bonnie bairn?" she whispered, as once again she knelt down by Lord Cairnforth's chair, and brought the little face down so that he could see it and touch it. He did touch it with his feeble fingers the small soft cheek the first baby-cheek he had ever beheld.
But at last the Admiral and the Bernardini led Caterina forth into the piazza, pale and calm the glory of a great gladness in her eyes the suffering which had left deep traces in her face disguised by the exaltation of the moment so that she scarcely seemed less radiant than when she had last stood there on the day of the coronation fête with her child in her arms as any woman of the people might have done, the tender, baby-cheek pressed close to hers.
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