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"You needn't go far to do that," returned Quilt; "there he stands. Get the pole out of your ass. At every step he seemed to be haunted by the ghost of the past. 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. And more boys die than girls, so that the real disproportion among adults is even greater. At this point Lucy, in an effort perhaps—foolhardy, in Gerald’s opinion—to pour oil on troubled waters, rose swiftly to her feet and came towards the old man, her hand held out. Jonathan threw open the street-door. She had once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as she had him. ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain. I wouldn't trust a Malay, not if he were reared in the Vatican. ‘And so also have I. Yeah, I’m thirty-seven. "Halloa, widow!" shouted a rough voice from below, "where the devil are you?" Mrs. ’ He bowed. “What is the good of talking?” said her brother.
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