People shrug their shoulders and call me a crazy
socialist. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. “Don’t come nearer!” she said. ” The note of his own voice exasperated him. As concertmaster, it was Lucy’s duty to seat the
orchestra as well as tune them. Mrs Sindlesham raised her brows. The calvacade was now put slowly in motion. He tore his gaze away, aware of the quickening of his heartbeat. 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
give myself to you. Do you hear me, Sir? Won't you stir!"
"Not a step," replied Langley, gruffly. “Mr. ’
Melusine hardly dared believe she had heard him aright.
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