"A bit up in the world again; eh?"
"Why did you bother with me?"
"Because no human being has the right to die. 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. "
"Then, I'm quite easy," cried Winifred, joyfully. ’
She was silent for a space, and it was evident that this part of the story was
still too painful to be recalled with ease. Sheppard's conduct, from my own personal knowledge,
has been unexceptionable for the last twelve years. That did not sound like the
name the young man had offered in the tower of the water-clock.
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