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. "Whose house do you want, master?" said the man, touching his hat. What was yet more worthy of note was, that the widow's countenance had an air
of refinement about it, of which it was utterly destitute before, and which
seemed to intimate that her true position in society was far above that wherein
accident had placed her. The stranger started at the
touch, and spoke.
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