I want to shout! I want to sing! I am glad! I am glad to be
alive because you are alive! I am glad to be a woman because you are a man! I
am glad! I am glad! I am glad! I thank God for life and you. I’m not ashamed—of the things I’m doing. ’
‘Then what?’ demanded Lucilla in a hushed tone. "But to drag this innocent child into the muck! With her head full of
book nonsense—love stories and fairy stories! Have you any idea of the tragedy
she is bound to stumble upon some day? I don't care about you. "I am utterly lost. ”
That simple statement of the case was by no means all that went on in Ann
Veronica’s mind. "
"But I was intoxicated!"
"So was the man you just fought in this room. A
Madame Valade and her husband. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. ”
“You know,” he said with some hesitation, “that your sister is singing. His frame was wasted,
and slightly bent; his eyes were hollow, his complexion haggard, and his beard,
which had remained unshorn during his hasty journey, was perfectly white. "
"I, Sir!—I swear——"
"Tush!" interrupted Jonathan, harshly. ’ The core of hurt rose up, tearing at her insides. ”
Presently, as if for comparison with her father’s letter, she got out Ramage’s
check from the box that contained her papers.
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