The coach was slowing down, and he realised that they had arrived in Golden
Square. I'm likely to get up any time in the night to work. But it’s only now I’m able to do 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. I will pray for you. ” The suitcase
loomed in her memory, making its presence felt once
again. “HASSELL’S CAMP,
“NEAR COLORADO. Lucia watched in fascination as Isobella nodded at her,
only three years older than she, nursing her son with a
contented smile upon her face. He groaned,
much to Melusine’s relief. ”
“You talk strangely, Anna,” he said. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment.
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