‘We listen to a higher.’
‘It may really be, that the child is like him.’
‘Not resembling Mr. Stuart Rem’s Clementina!’
‘A week of that child gave us our totally sleepless night.’ ‘One thinks more hopefully of a child of Victor’s.’
‘He would preponderate.’
‘He would.’
They sighed; but it was now with the relief of a lightened oppression.
‘If, dear, in truth the father’s look is in the child, he has the greater reason to desire for her a taste of our atmosphere.’
‘Do not pursue it. Sleep.’
‘One prayer!’