Was there anything he could do! "No, Hoddy; nothing. 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. Beyond the steps was a pole-chair in readiness. Lights gleamed from the lower rooms, and, on a nearer approach to the building, the sound of revelry might be heard from within. ’ ‘Alone, miss?’ ‘Certainly alone. "Here's the full, true, and particular account of Jack Sheppard's last astonishing and never-to-be-forgotten escape from the Castle of Newgate," bawled the hawker, "with a print of him taken from the life, showing the manner, how he was shackled and handcuffed. His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly selfish. Without the inclosure were reared several lofty gibbets, with their ghastly burthens. "The gen'l'man as hired us," replied the chairman. A common rage flushed their faces. Women and men had always flocked to him, covetous of his knowledge, his riches, and if all else failed, his carnal expertise.
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