Blood and bone, body and spirit, she
is selfish through and through. As for my
past, Michelle, and Michael’s, it is a book of woeful
chapters better left unread. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think
that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner.
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