"
"You are from America?"
"Yes. Maggot, drawing up her fine figure to its full height;
"because I condescend to live with you, am I never to look at another man,—
especially at one so much to my taste as this? Don't think it!"
"You had better retire, Madam," said the woollen-draper, sharply, "if you can't
conduct yourself with more propriety. 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. “There is someone in my rooms,” Anna said. Her
evident terror and distress reinforced the tale he told. ‘But there is
something still I do not understand. “Are these ordinary sapphires?” she said. “I’ll be hanged if I do. So I come round the other way and—Lordy, miss, I’m that sorry I made
a mull of it. Nothing is settled upon. ’
Her gaze followed the butler, who was moving towards the door. At Morningside Park I feel as
though all my growing up was presently to stop, as though I was being shut in
from the light of life, and, as they say in botany, etiolated.
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