’
She allowed herself to be pulled to the centre of the room, but uttered in a low
tone, full of suppressed anxiety, ‘How can he know? How can he know?’
‘You mean how can he know that this is your house?’
Melusine looked up at him, distress in her eyes. What has been the matter?”
“Toothache,” he answered laconically. He frowned. She opened one and found herself in a large untidy room set with chairs that
were a little disarranged as if by an overnight meeting. I
don’t see any good in life if it hasn’t got you in it. 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 find that difficult to believe,’ snapped the general, jerking to and fro as his
agitation mounted. Ramage leaned over the gate at Ann Veronica’s side, and for a moment there
was silence.
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