He began a jerky, broken conversation that lasted until they reached the
station, and left her puzzled at its drift and meaning. She had thought of
the lawyer who conducted the Remenham business, but she knew not where to
find him. 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. "Fire! That was what drew me to you in
the beginning. Annabel passed on with a strained nod to her
sister, and Sir John’s bow was a miracle of icy displeasure. So long as she could remember, her father had
never permitted her to sit at the table unless she came fully dressed. "
"Liar!" cried Jack. Her father was right: Ruth must never know. I tell you I’m Meysey Hill, the railway man.
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