. “Perhaps,” he queried, “you wish to avoid being seen about with any one—er— connected with the profession, under present circumstances. He had absorbed her in a single glance, and was now defining her as he worked. It was fortunate that by this time Winifred had so far recovered, as to be able to afford her father the best and only solace that, under the circumstances, he could have received,—her personal attentions. She drifted, via Theobald’s Road, obliquely toward the region about Titchfield Street. . She had been so young then. Rhea became alarmed that she was about to leave. The young fellow was almost as odd in his way as the girl was in hers. The road which wound by Westbourne Green, gave him a full view of the hill of Hampstead with its church, its crest of houses, and its villas peeping from out the trees. He was just getting cross about your being late for dinner—you know his way—when it came. "It can't be Captain Sheppard!" "It is," replied Jack; "and you had better have met the devil on your road than me. I'll be feeling fine in no time. “You must come home to him at once,” said Miss Stanley. 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.
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