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breast, a magnificent little boy, entirely naked,
strong as the infant Hercules, evidently not in
the least the worse for what had happened. In
a basket by her side slept another baby under
some wisps of rotten straw, she had picked it
up in the street, nobody knew to whom it
belonged. As I stood up to go, the motherless
baby began to fret, she snatched it from the
basket and put it to her other breast. I looked
at the humble Calabrian peasant woman, strong
limbed and broad bosomed with the two splendid
babies sucking vigorously at her breasts, and
suddenly I remembered her name. She was the
Demeter of the Magna Graecia where she was
born, the Magna Mater of the Romans. She was
Mother Nature, from her broad bosom flowed
the river of life as before over the graves of the
hundred thousand dead. O Death, where is Thy
sting? O Grave, where is Thy victory?
* * *
To return to Miss Hall: With all these
royalties on her hands it became increasingly difficult
for her to control the coming and going of my lady
patients. My hope to have done with neurotic
women when I left Paris had not been fulfilled,
my consulting-room in the Piazza di Spagna was
full of them. Some of them were old and dreaded
acquaintances from Avenue de Villiers, others had
been dumped upon me in ever-increasing numbers
by various worn-out nerve specialists in legitimate
self-defence. The dozens of undisciplined and
unhinged ladies of all ages that Professor
Weir-Mitchell alone used to hand over to me would be
enough to test the solidity of any man’s brain
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