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CHAPTER XX
To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting
out the old world. She had been going with a
twenty-two year old man named Julian Rimbauer in
secret. ‘Melusine, if you don’t let go my hand—’ He broke
off as she dragged a pocket handkerchief from her sleeve. I take the life out of
men. "We're forgetting," he said. 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. "Oh, Rollo, there are so many things I don't know! But you love me, don't you?"
Rollo wagged his stump violently and tried to lick her face. He was carelessly dressed, and there were
marks of unrest upon his features. Their beautifully proportioned figures and rather over-displayed
shoulders attracted the notice of Austin, who inquired of the chief turnkey
"whether he should stand by them during the interview?"
"Oh! never mind them," said Mrs. “We will see that he never annoys you.
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