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"Oh, Pink! Mother _can't_ lift you. I would if I could. Yes, I know I used to --
"Molly, take the baby. Couldn't you amuse him, somehow? Perhaps, if you tried hard, you could keep him still. When he screams so, it seems to hit me -- here. It makes it harder to breathe. He cried 'most all night. And if you could contrive to keep Pink, too --