Wrap yourself in my cloak, and
keep it. ‘You little fool! I’m a trained soldier with ten years
experience at my back. Basically a kindly man but made cynical and derisive by sordid contacts,
O'Higgins had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as unselfishness. “He is a sad blunderer. It was a pity he didn't break his neck, for he was hanged within the
year. 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. ’
‘What about the lad?’ said the captain suddenly. She was never announced as ‘Alcide,’ but directly she walked on she
simply became ‘Alcide’ to every one. He was there concealed, waiting
her return.
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