It had been part of her wedding trousseau, a gift from her family to his. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening, her jaw dropping open. It’s a damned hard thing to do. They became aware of the waitress standing over them with book and pencil ready for their bill. 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. “John, of course I forgive you if it is what you need from me. Having accomplished his intent, Gerald let the lad go and had himself driven back to Stratton Street. For a moment he believed this merely a new phase of the dream. ’ He frowned again.
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