Tell me, Sir," he
added, advancing towards the knight, "tell me has this man spoken falsely?—
Tell me my mother is alive, and do what you please with me. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which
overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who
traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible
promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes
the aspect of virtue. A neighbor
stopped by as the day wore on, causing her to duck and
cower as he rang the doorbell over and over. “And children must we women bear—
“Oh, damn!” she cried, as the hundred-and-first couplet or so presented itself
in her unwilling brain. Some
day older people, perhaps, will trouble to understand younger people, and there
won’t be these fierce disruptions; there won’t be barriers one must defy or
perish. “The Holy Ghost! The Pope! My mother!” She
squealed. “It’s odd—I have no doubt in my mind that what we are doing is wrong,” he
said. I had a hard fight to
begin with to win my way into the Upper Division—I was third on a list of fortyseven—and since then I have found myself promoted almost yearly in a
widening sphere of social service. ’ Then Hilary
became serious again.
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