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. "It was given me by a man who was drinking t'other night with Blueskin at the Lion! and who, though he slouched his hat over his eyes, and muffled his chin in a handkerchief, must have been Jonathan Wild. At Christmas he gave her a set of a small edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his own. ‘But you,’ she said in the friendliest way imaginable, ‘are a person tout à fait sympathique, I think. “I will go,” he said. You have taken even my knife. Wild had evidently discovered the body of Quilt Arnold, and was loudly expressing his anger and astonishment. Then she dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. Wood set off at full speed from the Mint, and, hurrying he scarce knew whither (for there was such a continual buzzing in his ears and dancing in his eyes, as almost to take away the power of reflection), he held on at a brisk pace till his strength completely failed him. “Surely Lady Ennison would object, even if it were possible. More strange stories were told of it than of any other house in London. At this place of refuge, situated in the heart of Wapping, near the river-side, he arrived in less than an hour, in a complete state of exhaustion. Men of action by the scarlet coats with their grey facings—insignia of the county militia. But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is apt to ennoble—or explain away. “This is mere nonsense, mere tongue-tied fear!” she said.
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