White would not approve of callers. How different were his present feelings compared with those he had experienced
on quitting it. Eh? Banging against the old rollers—that'll put some
life into us both. The thousand voices which a few moments before had
been so clamorous were now hushed. McClintock's was a plantation of ten thousand palms, yielding him annually
about half a million nuts. “Your father is in the study and wishes to speak to you. "
"You don't have to. Instead of English villas and cottages there
were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such
shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. Her pat answer to all inquiries was,
“I let my sister Shari make me over,” while she kept from
staring at her own reflection in the shiny shoes past her
bare knees. 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. "
"I begin to see that I shall have to learn English all over again. She was a lone white woman,
therefore marked.
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