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. "Perhaps that would have been best. Hadn’t they settled that already? “I want you as a friend,” he persisted, almost as if he disputed something. ‘You’re right. "But you've done well to trust me. "I've counted ten coffins so far. But this accusation, for want of sufficient evidence, met with the same fate as the first, and Jonathan came off victorious. ‘It is what my father intended. An hour later the doctor arrived; and after a thorough examination, he looked doubtful. ‘And now, monsieur le major—’ ‘I will see you to the door,’ Gerald said, looking with interest at the building that his observant groom had told him housed a small collection of nuns.
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