He was really very proud of her, and extraordinarily angry and resentful at the innocent and audacious selfreliance that seemed to intimate her sense of absolute independence of him, her absolute security without him. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceiling. net Title: The Ragged Edge Author: Harold MacGrath Release Date: April 13, 2005 [EBook #15614] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAGGED EDGE *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Clare Elliott and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. . ” “Why?” she asked. ’ She sagged a little suddenly, as if the painful memories in her mind had exhausted her body. These sham ideals and advanced notions. ” “I mean—” “I behaved like an idiot, that’s all. Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. She had to explain about and pay off that forty pounds. ‘But do you not see that he will come again? I think it is better if you, both of you, go and leave me here to find—’ She broke off, looking away. Outside in the hall he paused and thoughtfully stroked his smooth blue chin. Wild's intention, doubtless, was to use you as far as he found necessary, and then to sell you. She gave up as he finished, spending himself in her mouth. 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.
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