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He waked Tommy, and showed him the loaf. Tommy sprang from his lair and snatched at it.
"No, Tommy," said Clare, drawing back, "I can't trust you! You would eat it all; and if I died of hunger, what would become of baby, left alone with you? I don't feel at all sure you wouldn't eat _her_!"