Sheppard in a troubled voice, "that if I lost
my child, I should lose all I have left in the world. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely
healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world. I will come later to see
you, Melusine. 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. "After all, he is my father, Hoddy; and I cursed
him. "
He was delighted to find the office deserted. "Do not go near him, mother," cried Jack; "do not believe him. ’
‘You were always someone, Melusine.
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