”
“And no one else—has a key?”
“I believe,” she said, “that that man must have one. Then he went on:
“—and, indeed, to most of the established things in life is, frankly,
unsatisfactory. . 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. All the precious paintings and statues of the divine family
were here, as was the enormous wooden crucifix set above the altar. This occasioned a
little delay; but Jack, whose skill as a workman in the particular line he had
chosen was unequalled, and who laughed at difficulties, speedily cut out a panel
by means of a centre-bit and knife, took the key from the other side, and
unlocked the door. "Mr. ‘But you know everything now,’ protested Hilary, keeping pace as Gerald took
the stairs two at a time. “Further than that, I am amazed that
you should dare to allude to those few moments, to that single moment of folly. "
"Here's a pocket-book full of notes, and a heavy bag of gold," said Blueskin,
examining the articles on the floor. "Recollect you are in my power. You are not unlike Pandora.
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