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As for what is subsequently done , I will give you instructions on my return from Guadalupe , if it is God 's will that I should live to complete my pilgrimage , for in the meantime I shall have had leisure to consider what may be my best course . I shall have no need of a midwife ; for as I know from other confinements of mine , more honourable than this , I shall do well enough with the aid of my women only , and thus I shall avoid having an additional witness to my misfortune . ' `` Here the poor distressed pilgrim ended what she had to say , and broke out into a flood of tears , but was partly composed by the soothing words spoken to her by my wife , who had recovered her wits . I immediately went in search of a woman to whom I might take the child when it was born ; and , between twelve and one o'clock that night , when all the people in the house were fast asleep , the lady was delivered of the most beautiful little girl that eyes ever beheld , and the very same that your worship has just seen . But the wonder was that neither did the mother make any moan in her labour , nor did the baby cry ; but all passed off quietly , and in all the silence that became this extraordinary case . The lady kept her bed for six days , during which the doctor was constant in his visits ; not that she had informed him of the cause of her illness , or that she took any of the medicines he prescribed ; but she thought to blind her men-servants by his visits , as she afterwards informed me when she was out of danger . On the eighth day she left her bed , apparently as big as she had been before her delivery , continued her pilgrimage , and returned in three weeks , looking almost quite well , for she had gradually reduced the bulk of her artificial dropsy .