American Day Dream

American Day Dream
Biblis painting
Boulevard des Capucines
Charity painting
O merciful God, have pity; have pity upon my poor baby!' she cried. `Heap as much anger as you want to upon me, and welcome; but pity the child!' ¡¡¡¡She leant against the chest of drawers, and murmured incoherent supplications for a long while, till she suddenly started up. ¡¡¡¡`Ah! perhaps baby can be saved! Perhaps it will be just the same!' ¡¡¡¡She spoke so brightly that it seemed as though her face might have shone in the gloom surrounding her. ¡¡¡¡She lit a candle, and went to a second and a third bed under the wall, where she awoke her young sisters and brothers, all of whom occupied the same room. Pulling out the washing-stand so that she could get behind it, she poured some water from a jug, and made them kneel around, putting their hands together with fingers exactly vertical. While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from