Why had she married him, off-hand, like that? She did not love him, or he knew nothing of love signs. ‘Why do you think I want a man ready to run to me with every move she makes?’ countered Gerald. A species of vertigo seized him. In a moment he was beside her. By rights I ought to have arrested her days ago. “You’re a student, perhaps?” said the tall woman. "He has robbed him. . 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. On Monday Charvill had still not returned, and the major duly presented himself at Mrs Chalkney’s house in Grosvenor Square, thanking his stars that his friend Roding would not be there to spoil sport. “You are one of the Hampshire Pellissiers, I know, and your family are quite as good as ours.
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