‘You don’t believe her?’ ‘My dear Major Alderley, I do not know her,’ Mrs Sindlesham pointed out. 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. And, without another word, he seized the table with both hands, and upset it; scattering plates, dishes, bottles, jugs, and glasses far and wide. The tide'll bring him to us fast enough. She had never understood how much knowledge had been kept from her because she was a woman and even began to doubt the methods of the Church, something she never would have dared before. "Well," she said, in reply, "I may have done Jack an injustice. Accepting his glass from the butler, Gerald glanced at Mrs Sindlesham and saw a dimple peep out. She felt he was going to say something more—something still more personal and intimate. Joe, my foster dad, was a heroin and booze addict. The two aunts of these young ladies lived for many years in the dower house upon my estate in Hampshire. “Does he never speak to you of—of old times?” she faltered. We never started out in any high-browed manner to scandalize and Shelleyfy.
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