He saw the colossal selfishness of his
act; but he could not beg off on the plea of abnormality. At one
moment, it seemed as if the flying bark was about to put to shore. "Mac, did you ever run across a missioner by the name of Enschede?"
"Enschede?" McClintock stared at the ceiling. “Drive to 13, Montague Street, cabman,” she ordered. Bah. We're all safe!"
"Don't lose a moment then," cried Jack, forcing himself into the aperture, while
the Amazon, assisted by Bess, pulled him through it. 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. And so your Melusine is busy trying
to prove that she is the real one. I am called Melusine. Nobody knows what his real name is, but he's a Hollander. “We will take it then,” he said, “that you have refused or ignored one request I
have made you this morning. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the
whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion
seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon
the threshold. He stopped abruptly. "
"Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while
Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of
his snuff-box.
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