CHAPTER XXXI. He lived on the seventh floor behind a winding set of
hallways that towered over her in their grayness. The
gentleman appealed to shook his head in reply, coughed as only a Dutchman can
cough, and raising his hand from the bowl of his pipe, went through precisely the
same mysterious ceremonial as the Master. 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. Then, in a few years, he and Ruth might fare forth in comfort and
security. He sat up in his chair as though the question
had stung him. If you
received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation. ‘She won’t like it,’ prophesied the captain gloomily. Her parents have more money than
God. He is the one who has said that she must go to the convent. "I'm dumb.
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