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”
Then it was her father issued his ultimatum. 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 try to be. ”
“What case?”
“A divorce—or something—I don’t know. He
remembered also, all at once, the very first words he had heard her speak: “I was
not born to this. Here, as has already been observed, condemned malefactors were
allowed to converse with such of their guests as had not interest or money
enough to procure admission to them in the hold.
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