”
“No! Well, I just suggested it. Wood, meantime, had not remained idle. But when it
came to broaching them, it proved to be much more difficult than she had
supposed. Particles of bullet were embedded in Rhea’s large
arm as she swung across the stones in her donated legs. ”
He stood up and waited for her to move. ‘But what in the world was
she doing at Remenham House?’
‘Your quickness is astounding, Lucy,’ Gerald told her admiringly. It was something that would create a mutual
claim, a relationship. She could not see any relief from this
anxiety except repayment, and repayment seemed impossible. ’
Mrs Sindlesham’s mouth dropped open. Sheppard, horror-stricken. ‘Either you tell me
why you want the wretched animal, or it stays here. "Stop thief!"
roared Jonathan. But at least it gave her
more time. 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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