“I mean it. " "And I trust you will never have occasion to weep again, my poor soul," replied Wood, setting down his lantern, and brushing a few drops from his eyes, "unless it be tears of joy. 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. ’ Gerald reached out and took her hand, enclosing it between both his own. So, at least, thought one of two persons who were seated together in a small back-parlour of the house at Dollis Hill. “I think,” she said, “that I will tell you everything. ” To which the only possible reply seemed to be, “I’m not coming home. All that she had ever loved were gone, except Sebastian. I should have gone mad without it. Besides, he might hear things. ‘Gérard is not mad, only of a disposition entirely interfering. Me, I have a question for you first. But I was sorry for poor Jack—as I am still, and hoped he would mend.
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