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and lovelier than ever. Takes every partical of her mother's time & attention. Lord deliver me from infants, if it must always be thus.

I wonder if the maternal instinct is so strong that I should feel be like all the rest of them. I can't imagine it.

Truly children are interesting at all ages. I do not doubt that I should experience a great thrill & love a new born suckling with instinctive passion and tenacity & I sometimes think I should not be able to bear the loss of one with equinimity for I do not like disappointment or to work or suffer in vain, but the nursery years of a child's life do not seem so delightful to me as