The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance, but with a very shrewd aspect. They had their little dreams about her. It was a bogus affair altogether, kept by some blackguard or other of an Englishman. "I am surprised we have received no summons for attendance to-day," he remarked; "perhaps the other robber may be secured. "Mrs. She was obliged to concede that his features were pleasing, his strength and vitality attractive; and there was no denying how well this uniform of a militia suited his figure, which was lean and powerful both. As to the picture, I'll keep it myself, though, if you do go I shall need no memorial of you. And now I find, when it is too late, that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. “Why should I bear the burden of your wickedness? Who knows what might come of it? I shall permit nothing of the sort. But if his frame was immature, his looks were not so. 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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