—Your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard, who
had been a loyal subject of King James the Second, and borne arms in his
service, on the abdication of that monarch, turned his back upon the Stuarts, and
would never afterwards recognise their claims to the crown. "They'll escape. The sing-song girls in Hong-Kong
are far handsomer. ’
Hilary stared at him. His perseverance was amply rewarded. “I wouldn’t have been without this
trip for worlds. 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. Guiding this man of hers over the troubled sea of life had engraved
these lines. “Why did you dare to do that?”
Part 3
Each of them stared at the other, set in a universe that had changed its system
of values with kaleidoscopic completeness.
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