’ ‘What offer?’ she asked, suspicion rife in her voice. ’ Gerald could not suppress a grin. . ‘You won’t get a thing out of her. It’s an engagement ring. Here goes. Chapter IV THE TEMPERAMENT OF AN ARTIST “You may sit there and smoke, and look out upon your wonderful Paris,” Anna said lightly. . It has been a marvellous day—and I am going to England. "Perhaps things would have been different if she had lived. Or shall I ask Colonel Anson for a few hints?” “For Heaven’s sake no,” she declared. 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. "Oh no—no! You say this to terrify me—to try me. S. No one could take the place for anything but what it was, and even Gosse hesitated in the doorway.
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