"My schemes have
succeeded tolerably well hitherto. And this was an adventure of
which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. "Put it in your
teeth and light it. It was very much like a
real house, with one central stalagmite that looked like a
column and a waterfall that served when she wanted to
bathe. I can assure you, I wouldn’t be
single again for worlds. —I'll soon find you out. ’
Melusine sat slowly down again, looking him over thoughtfully. 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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