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I'll ne'er see you again! He turned on his heel and went angry away. 'Twas then I a murd'ress became." Here Pelle paused in astonishment, for the grown-up man had sunk forward as he sat, and he was sobbing. "Yes, it was wicked," he said. "For then she killed her child and had to go to prison." He spoke with a certain amount of contempt; he did not like men that cried.
Natura, injured as he had been, could not behold it without compassion; he ran by turns to Maria, endeavouring to raise her, then to her parents, beseeching them to moderate their passion, then to her again: 'You are too generous, said the father, 'let her die, happy had it been if she had perished in the cradle': Just as he spoke these words she revived, and lifting up her eyes, 'O, I am no murd'ress, cried she, 'guilty as I am, in this Heaven knows my innocence. 'It is false, it is false, said the father; 'but were it true, canst thou deny, thou most abandoned wretch, that thou wert also ignorant that the villain who wrote this letter had followed us to Spaw, and bring a second shame upon us? She answered to this only with her tears, which assuring him she had no defence to make on this article, his rage grew more inflamed; he loaded her with curses, and could not keep himself from spurning her with his feet, as she still lay groveling on the ground, and might perhaps have proceeded to greater violences, had not Natura, by main force, with-held him, while her mother, tho' little less incensed against her, dragged her in a manner out of the room, more dead than alive.
I'll ne'er see you again! He turned on his heel and went angry away. 'Twas then I a murd'ress became." Here Pelle paused in astonishment, for the grown-up man had sunk forward as he sat, and he was sobbing. "Yes, it was wicked," he said. "For then she killed her child and had to go to prison." He spoke with a certain amount of contempt; he did not like men that cried.
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