” “Oh my goodness. ‘Now you see why it is I no longer require the proof of which I have spoken. “It doesn’t matter,” she said, after a long interval, “if they are absurd. ” She smiled artificially as she scanned the audience and located John. " "A mother's blessing on you," replied Mrs. A great bowl of scarlet carnations gleamed from a dark corner, set against the background of a deep brown wall. Her lips were apart, but no breath seemed to issue from them; and, but for a slight—very slight palpitation of the bosom, the vital principle might be supposed to be extinct. 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. He grasped Lucilla’s elbow.
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