"I sha'n't offer any of these to you two," he said; "but I know you won't mind me
having an imitation king's peg. A farthing candle, stuck in a bottle neck, shed its feeble light upon the table,
which, owing to the provident kindness of Mr. Wood, in equal trepidation. ’
‘And I love the way you call me imbecile,’ finished Gerald. "
"Afraid?"
"Yes. Recovering himself quickly his instinct of self-defence was quicker
than his recollection of Anna’s presence. 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.
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