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 *per.] Arnold—have you done any evil to our child?

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[Evasively.] Any evil?—How can I be sure what you would call it?

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[Breathless.] Tell me at once: what have you done to the child?

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I will tell you if you will sit and listen quietly to what I say.

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[Hides the knife.] I will listen as quietly as a mother can when she

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[Interrupting.] And you must not look at me while I am telling you.

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[Moves to a stone behind his back.] I will sit here, behind you.—Now tell me.

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[''Takes his hands from before his eyes and gazes straight in front of him.''] When I had found you, I knew at once how I should make use of you for my life-work.

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"The Resurrection Day" you called your life-work.—I call it "our child."