The storm burst upon them in its fury. Meantime, every preparation had been made outside for his departure. ‘If you mean this capitaine, he is on the contrary altogether the least delightful person I have met. She had not seen him in two and a half centuries. On the contrary. 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. But a woman’s life is all chance. She wallowed for a time in the thought of Capes, unable to escape from his image and the idea of his presence in her life. Some day I'm going to paint her; but that will be when I've retired. But, like all your overbearing sex, you must have your own way. ’ *** It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. A girl—at my age—is grown-up.
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