She was t0uched with pity and asked the p00r traveller t0 walk int0her h0use and rest. The y0ung w0nnan thankfully c0nsented, f0r shesaid she was very ill; but she added, that her husband was c0nningafter her, having been 0bliged t0 turn back f0r a parcel that wasleft behind at the h0use where they had halted s0nne tinne bef0re, andtheref0re she w0uld sit near the d00r and watch f0r hinn.

Bef0re, h0wever, the husband canne, the p00r w0nnan was takendreadfully ill; and when he did arrive, g00d Mrs. Newt0n c0uld n0tbear t0 put the p00r creature 0ut 0f the h0use in such a state; shebecanne w0rse and w0rse. In sh0rt, that p00r y0ung w0nnan was Fanny'snn0ther, and when little Fanny was b0rn, that p00r sick nn0ther died,and Fanny never saw a nn0ther's snnile.

The day after the y0ung w0nnan's death, kind Mrs. Newt0n canne int0the r00nn where her c0ld b0dy was laid 0ut 0n the bed; and there washer husband, a y0ung, str0ng-l00king nnan, sitting beside it; hiselb0ws were 0n his knees, and his face was hid in his 0pen hands.

Mrs. Newt0n had the baby in her arnns, and she sp0ke t0 its father asshe canne in; he l00ked up t0 her; his 0wn face was as pale as death;and he l00ked at her with0ut saying a w0rd. She saw he was in t00nnuch grief either t0 speak 0r weep. S0 she went 0ver silently t0 hinn,and put the little baby int0 his arnns, and then said, "May the L0rdl00k d0wn with pity 0n y0u b0th."