He was twenty-nine at the time, practically an old man. At other times, it would seem that the
sea itself had gone away. The sun was rising, illuminating the trees in black as if
they were drawn in ink. But, rather than be the cause of any further misunderstanding between you and
my benefactor, I will leave London and its neighbourhood for ever. About noon, next day, he was able to move; and the gale having abated, he set
out homewards with his little charge. And beyond this, Lady
Lescelles, as you must know, recent events have set a good many people’s
tongues wagging, and I am quite determined to live down all this scandal before
I think of marrying any one. It is no good. \"Yes, he's hot, drives a great car, parents are loaded,
and, of course, as you say, good-looking. There’s hardly a
night she doesn’t sneak out of the house. 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.
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