”
“My dear young lady,” the official said irritably, “this man would not have your
name and address in his pocket without an object. ‘Why do you stand there? Take him up, and bring him out
at once. By this time, she had so far succeeded in calming
herself, that she answered the greetings of the neighbours whom she encountered
on her way to the sacred edifice—if sorrowfully, still composedly. "
"I can't! I can't—not now!"
"Bat!—can't you see that she's the kind who would understand and forgive? She
loves you. "
"Conscious; well, that's good news. "
The hooting was instantaneously changed to cheers. When next he asked for her, some
twelve hours later, he was told that Mademoiselle had left. He put his free arm around her and held the censer ready; and as Ruth snuggled
her cheek against his sleeve, they were, so far as intent, in each other's arms. 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. What was he doing? What was he thinking? It was less
than a day now, less than twenty hours. Destruction
everywhere marked its course. But for him——”
Something in her sister’s tone startled Anna. She
forbade him to escape to his workshop in the basement
during those times, denying him his one and only hobby. Did you grow up at the
Valade estates? You were born a Valade, I take it, even though your father is
English.
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