Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Walker, Dugald Stewart · Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & Company · leaf 92
oo, was her consolation. Worse than anything was the terrible hunger she felt, andshe could not stoop down to break a bit of bread off the loafshe was standing on. No; her back had stiffened, her armsand hands had stiffened, and her whole body was like a pillarof stone. She could only turn her… … -o3^^a*rt^ Uears of sorrow shed by a mother for her child will always reach it; but they do not bring healing, they burn and make the Lornieiit Cdlv Limes worse THE GIRL WHO TROD ON A LOAF 71 not, for she had pulled oflf their wings and made creeping in-sects of them. That was indeed a torment…
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