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Presently she became aware of footsteps hurrying after her, and glanced back to find Miss Klegg, a little out of breath, in pursuit. A farthing candle, stuck in a bottle neck, shed its feeble light upon the table, which, owing to the provident kindness of Mr. He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. What a pig she was. ‘You were supposed to be nursing him,’ Martha grumbled, ‘and helping him convalesce. On gaining a stack of chimneys at the back of the house, he came to a pause, and again unmasked his lantern. For ten years I've been trying to go home, but my conscience will not permit me, I hate the Orient. 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. ’ Her eyes narrowed. "Then his case is hopeless. Then she dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. The place was gloomy, with its darkly panelled walls, but it was sparsely furnished. I had consecrated my life to His Work; and I took the primrose path. 1.
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