Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the
burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a
coquette. Wood, in equal trepidation. In olden days it boasted a chapel, dedicated to Saint
Thomas; beneath which there was a crypt curiously constructed amid the arches,
where "was sepultured Peter the Chaplain of Colechurch, who began the Stone
Bridge at London:" and it still boasted an edifice (though now in rather a
tumbledown condition) which had once vied with a palace,—we mean Nonesuch
House. My mother, I'm sure, didn't intend to
hurt your feelings. 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. 'Received from Sir Rowland Trenchard, 15,000 £. I am an independent sort of person,” she continued, “and I am engaged in
an attempt to earn my own living. "
"Then it was not a dream!" ejaculated Sir Rowland in a hollow voice, and as if
speaking to himself. "No offence," returned Jonathan. He never appears to so little advantage as when speaking of him.
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