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. The
hymnal lyrics had never stirred her; she had memorized and sung them parrotwise. 9. Thames, meanwhile, had drawn his sword, and was about to rush upon Jonathan;
but he was withheld by Wood. ” She had not seen or heard
from a single one of them since. ”
Her eyes were lit with humour. “Oh, I know you would stop me if you
could.
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