’
‘Poor little devil,’ said Gerald, genuinely sorry for her. When she came to school on
Friday, she almost tripped twice going up the stairs. He stood a little anxious and fussy, bothered by the
responsibility of her, entirely careless of what her life was or was likely to be,
ignoring her thoughts and feelings, ignorant of every fact of importance in her
life, explaining everything he could not understand in her as nonsense and
perversity, concerned only with a terror of bothers and undesirable situations. The Jacobite. ” Diane purred. ”
The girl shook her head. “Don’t you know, child, that this is
torture for me? What in God’s name more can you have to tell me?”
Her face had become almost like a marble image. 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. Moving back to the corner again, she ran a hand back over the leather-bound
books—which, she realised, were not books at all. He was keen to get to work, but the inspiration would not come. “And I’m
not happy. ‘What is this proof?’
‘I will not tell you. Before he re-entered
the prison, he hesitated from a doubt whether he was not fearfully increasing his
risk of capture; but, convinced that he had no other alternative, he went on.
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