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"I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself."

She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometime forget them... Their absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself. It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.