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told him and given him so much pain she took him in her
arms:
“My dear friend, you must not be so distressed — you see
that I am not. On the contrary, I am sometimes quite happy
about it. When I think that I am going to have a child — a
sweet little child, my very own — I can scarcely believe it.
I think it will be so great a happiness that I can hardly grasp
it now. A little living being, to belong to me only, to love, to
live and work for. I sometimes think that then only will my
life and my work be of some purpose. Don’t you think I could
make a name for myself good enough for the child too? It is
only because I don’t know yet how to arrange it all that I am
a little depressed sometimes, and also because you are so sad.
“Perhaps I am poor and dull and an egoist, but I am a
woman, and as such I cannot but be happy at the prospect of
being a mother."
He kissed her hands:
“My poor, brave girl! It makes it almost worse for me to
see you take it that way.”
Jenny smiled faintly:
“Would it not be worse still if I took it in another way?”
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