"
"No; it is only—what shall I say?—troubled. I have been very foolish, but it is
over. Shari proceeded to paint, brush, dust, slather,
and blot Lucy’s face with makeup. ”
“I will tell her,” Anna promised. 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. I knew it. What our dear mother would say back home I dread to think. ”
“Let me tell you the reason you are here. This did not tickle his
vanity; on the contrary, it enlivened his terror, which is a phase of fascination. Both Ruth and McClintock came down to the launch to wish him God-speed and
good luck. "
"You cannot help yourself, Sir Rowland," replied Jonathan, contemptuously. Wood's house
was broken into and plundered.
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