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# The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/101/) — Her heart clung to the little creature, but she could not explain to her husband the circumstances in which it was placed.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/102/) — He was expected to return shortly; and were she to tell him, he would very likely, as was the custom at that time, expose the poor child in the public highway, and let any one take it away who would.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/103/) — The good wife of the Viking could not let that happen, and she therefore resolved that the Viking should never see the child excepting by daylight.

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