” Anna drew out her purse at once. He swore that I was his wife, that chance had given me to him at last. ‘I do not know the word in English. 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. ” Drummond looked up with mock eagerness. "The door!—the door!—death!" he added, as he tried the handle, "it is locked—and I am unarmed. A riding-habit is all I have seen. Old Lancashire families both.
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