Now you can understand why I have been obliged to——”
“Yes, yes, I understand that,” Courtlaw interrupted. Part 5
She had sent her father a telegram from the East Strand post-office worded
thus:
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is
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well
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with
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and
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quite
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safe
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me
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and afterward she had dined a la carte upon a cutlet, and had then set herself
to write an answer to Mr. Wood's present position, and subsequent proceedings fully
intelligible, it may be necessary to give some notion of the shape and structure of
the platform on which he had taken refuge. Besides, I thought you despised killing women. She was sore and overstrung, and it was intolerable to her that
he should stand within three yards of her unsuspectingly, with an incalculably
vast power over her happiness. They blinded me. Miss Mary to the life. His apparel was sumptuous in the extreme, and such as was only
worn by persons of the highest distinction. Wished to see you. Suppose he stopped all her allowance,
made it imperative that she should either stay ineffectually resentful at home or
earn a living for herself at once. “Mary!” He whispered loudly. As
Mrs. Always as black and bitter as gall. "Shall I fetch the light, Captain?" whispered Blueskin. 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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