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she was not sure what to say; her eyes fell with appreciation upon the prettiness of the repast, but her stomach was too put upon by her own mental convolutions to consider eating. 
anxiously worrying the stem of a flower between her forepaws, heda tried to think of what excuse she could give to cover druid — but she did not need one.
"my last oldest children, they've gone, in the night. it's just the boys and i now." ezra and gideon and their failure of a mother.
tears spilled crystalline down her face; "why did god give me so many blessings, so many children to love, if he was just going to take them away one by one? why did he give me this heart," heda sobbed, "if he was just going to break it again and again?"
and now, poor fool she felt she was, the red-nape was crying for anselm too.