Sir James Thornhill's preparations being completed, Mr. Boys,
at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain
charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush
breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of
which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. 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. They talked lightly
but confidentially until Sir John approached them with a slight frown upon his
face. It isn't as if he were stricken with typhoid or
pneumonia or something like that. I see that I am a beast—I beg your pardon, bête—and an imbecile, and
an idiot. Her safety lay in pretense—that
what she saw was as a tale twice told. Wild here!" exclaimed Mrs. Before that came your father didn’t even know
you were gone. Directly
he saw Anna he accosted her. ‘How she pouted, and tried to make out that she had been imposed upon. She felt a lump
rise in her throat, for she had come to love living in
America.
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