The conversation turned towards
the subject of the Diedermayer’s many European
vacations. “My sister,” she murmured, “is so independent. 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. ”
“Dear me,” Anna laughed, “how unfortunate! What ought I to do? Should I be
forgiven, do you think, if I were to go and hold that skein of wool for the old
lady in the yellow cap?”
“Don’t speak of her irreverently,” Brendon said, in an awed whisper. It slid
off flimsily. Which was not to say that ladies were not interested in him. “You don’t have to go if you don’t want to. Where was this
kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. See!" she added, tearing the rag
from her head,—"I had beautiful black hair once. He wanted
to put on his overcoat and come after you and look for you—in London. ’ His finger came out and Melusine felt it stroke her cheek. “This life is killing me! Oh, it
is dull, dull, dull!”
Suddenly an idea seemed to strike her. “Anna,” she moaned, “I am a jealous, ungrateful woman. But the influence of the science radiated far beyond its own special field—
beyond those beautiful but highly technical problems with which we do not
propose for a moment to trouble the naturally terrified reader.
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