I know that in my heart I would take whatever he gave. A minute pressure inwards showed him that it was not locked. Too close, he reasoned, for safety. It is a precaution merely. ‘One would take it that the house had been ransacked. “A man can smoke, a man can swear; A man scores always, everywhere. It might as well be Melusine herself. 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. There was a gentle rustling of skirts. A single blanket constituted his sole covering at night. Annabel thought, and thought again. ‘What we have to find out is whether or not the wretched female is in fact Lord Charvill’s granddaughter. If anyone noticed, he did not report the event.
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