I
know I am undeserving of your bounty; but if I were to tell you what hardships I
have undergone—to what frightful extremities I have been reduced—and to
what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake,
—if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who
have ever loved me, and shunned by all who have ever known me, except the
worthless and the wretched,—if you knew (and Heaven grant you may be spared
the knowledge!) how much affliction sharpens love, and how much more dear to
me my child has become for every sacrifice I have made for him,—if you were
told all this, you would, I am sure, pity rather than reproach me, because I cannot
at once consent to a separation, which I feel would break my heart. “I am staying
at the Savoy. Closing the door, Jonathan next produced his
lantern, and, hastening towards the window, undrew a bolt by which it was
fastened. ’
‘Yes, I’m sorry about that,’ Gerald uttered in a rueful tone. And turning again, as if the emotions she had
churned up kept her on the move, she paced back to the mantel and there
stopped, staring at her own reflection in the tarnished mirror. "Why did I want it under my pillow?" he asked. 181
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MICHELLE’S STORY
The week at school was mostly uneventful save
Michelle’s enthusiasm and constant ploys for attention. Idleness is the key of
beggary, Jack. “No, I’m not a virgin. I think over all sorts of things.
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