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Frederick unwillingly allowed the child to slip to the rocks and after Tess'd started Boy and the dog on their homeward way, she stood before him, her lips quivering. She knew he, too, suffered, and she waited quietly as he dried his eyes and recovered his choking breath. She was sorry he'd come. She'd hoped never to see him again.
She thought, mebbe, Tess'd take 'em to 'er." "Sure, 'Satisfied, I'll take 'em home an' the brat'll take 'em up the ravine next time she goes to the professor's." "Mother Moll were the only one of us all," Jake told Skinner, while Longman was in the shack, "what stood by Tess. She allers says Tess air a goin' to surprise us all. She says as how the brat'll be rich an' have a fine home.
In the kitchen she stirred the fire and heated some milk and broke bread into it. While she was gone, the dwarf made up his mind that now, if ever, he must prove the power of the faith Tess'd taught him. Motionless, but watching the baby, he reviewed the proofs he'd had in the shack and during his years with Tessibel on the hill.
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