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. ’ ‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an understanding. "Ay. Wood, was examined. They both listened intently. “I’d have to be blown up into a thousand pieces. Besides, there's something odd about the boy; for, though I questioned him pretty closely concerning his business, he declined answering my questions, and said he could only deliver his message to her ladyship. It would not burden him with any obligation. Springing to his feet in an ecstasy of terror, he stumbled, and had well nigh realized his worst apprehensions. It was also cold, and dark, for there had been no time to light the lantern. You were delicious in concert, by the way.
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