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. Wild here presently, and I wouldn't for the
world—Zounds!" he exclaimed, as the figure of the thief-taker appeared at the
wicket, "here he is. Do not imagine you can at one moment
avail yourself of our excellent regulations (with which you seem sufficiently
well acquainted), and the next break them with impunity.
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