 ... those innocents would do her no harm"; and how frightened I used to be though in those days I had my maid to sleep with me, because I was never half so good or religious as she— and yet I never saw the infants.  The Essays of Elia: 1st Series - Page 161by Charles Lamb - 1890 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
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