-"

"Just as happy! No, that were impossible. I can't control my 
to that extent. But this I can promise you--if you and the child are
well, I shall be happy for all."

"Well, then, let a nurse be brought:--even now, I  her the child's
affectionate glances and hearty caresses!"

"And what is the  you were complaining of?"

"The thought of depriving another child of its mother  my
. Even if thousands have done the same  time and time
again, he who commits a wrong, sins for himself and as deeply as if it
were the first time the sin were ever committed. Yet, I submit. But I
shall insist on one : the foster-mother of my child must be an
honest married woman and must belong to a respectable family. I could
never silence my  if I were to deprive a child, already
wretched enough, of its all--its mother! In this I am perfectly
indifferent to worldly regulations and prescribed forms. Is the poor,
forlorn child, born into a hostile world, to be robbed of the only
source of wordnetdesire yet left it? And even if we take an honest married
woman, we will be depriving a child of