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. ’
Chapter Five
‘Now then, young Jack,’ Gerald said, turning to the lad, who was sitting in the
place lately vacated by his self-appointed mistress, but in a state of far less
relaxation. He then barred and double-locked the door, took out the key, (a
precautionary measure which, with a grim smile, he said he never omitted,)
thrust it into his vest, and motioning the couple to follow him, led the way to the
inner room. “I wonder,” he said, “how you would like to be made love to—boldly or
timorously or sentimentally. I’m ashamed
to confess it, but I didn’t want the charge of you—a too close reminder of my
own lost babe. ’ You used to declare that you hated the name. See? You marry me. The lady, who was indeed stunning, Gerald suddenly realised, said never a
word.
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