Wood," observed Jackson, in a slightly-sarcastic
tone. He occupied one of the smaller houses near the
station. 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'm not hungry. In fact, Gerald had given order to the coachman to drive out of Golden Square
and then stop around the corner. ’
‘I’m hanged if I can make out either of you,’ complained Hilary. She wanted to be on with
the show. At length, however, by dealing blows right and left with their swords, and even
inflicting severe cuts on the foremost of the rabble, the soldiers managed to gain
a clear course, and to drive back the assailants; who, as they retreated behind the
barricades, shouted in tones of defiance, "To Tyburn! to Tyburn!"
The object of all this tumult, meanwhile, never altered his position, but sat back
in the cart, as if resolved not to make even a struggle to regain his liberty. ‘Now I see that you are mad indeed. He could not pull her soul apart now to
satisfy that queer absorbing, delving thing which was his literary curiosity; he
had put her outside that circle.
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