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the boy and never took her eyes off his face, 

 looking the very essence of womanly pity 

 and love. Now and then when he suffered 

 from a paroxysm of fear, she would softly 

 stroke his face, which appeared to soothe him 

 instantly ; but nothing she could do could 

 ever stop the wild restless look in his eyes or 

 prevent his glancing about as if watching for 

 some dreadful apparition. It was a sad, sad 

 picture, made doubly striking by the utter 

 stolidity and indifference of that awful dog, 

 Grindum. 



Soon hot basins of bread and milk were 

 prepared, which both children eat ravenously, 

 and then they were put into steaming hot 

 baths, washed, dried, combed, and wrapped 

 in blankets ; but when we attempted to take 

 them up to the nice warm beds that had 

 been prepared for them, there was the same 

 wild terrified cry from the boy for Grindum ; 

 and to pacify him the dog had to be taken 



