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. Evidently her foresight has saved me a funeral. Ann Veronica hesitated with a question that had leaped up in her mind, and
that she felt was cruel. “It
seems to me all madness—madness! Just because your father—wouldn’t let you
disobey him!”
Part 3
In the afternoon the task of expostulation was taken up by Mr. This did not tickle his
vanity; on the contrary, it enlivened his terror, which is a phase of fascination.
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