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Rh he met the hatred in them. He began to stammer:

"It's nothing He he began to cry I couldn't  I didn't do anything What?"

Giving no heed to him she began to walk up and down the room, clasping the child tightly in her arms and murmuring:

"My little man! My little mannie! Was 'ou frightened, love? There now, love! There now!  Lambabaun! Mamma's little lamb of the world!  There now!"

Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffused with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight. He listened while the paroxysm of the child's sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his eyes.