"Mac, you old son-of-a-gun!"
"Got a man's breakfast?" McClintock demanded to know. "
"I had to. 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. But, in spite of his outcries and resistance, he was dragged along by Jonathan
and his janizaries. ”
“I thought every one knew. The soldiers! They must not find her here. Here was the corner-stone of a capital story; but he knew that
Howard Spurlock would never write it. "
"My sister Constance!" echoed the knight; "what of her?"
"You agree to my proposal, then?" said Jonathan. "
Thus urged, the damsels began to raise their voices in loud lamentation. “You silly fool,” he said.
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