’
The listening soldiers began to snigger behind their hands. "Then you ought to be thankful to me for the warning. 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 opened my eyes, and she was bending
over my bedside. "No offence," returned Jonathan. Even if you didn’t know it. ’
‘You were always someone, Melusine. But you must see her alone; and that'll be no easy matter to manage, for she's a
great invalid, and has generally somebody with her. "I mean to
have no one but yourself in it. This time she was indeed beaten. John looked at his feet bashfully. Phillips Oppenheim
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNA THE ADVENTURESS ***
***** This file should be named 26596-h. ” She replied. ’
‘I don’t, as a matter of fact,’ Gerald said decidedly, a frown creasing his brow. And as he walked by her side they began a wrangle that
was none the less pleasant to Ann Veronica because it served to banish a
disagreeable preoccupation.
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