I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had sud… - Henry James

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I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart. We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had them.