‘Odds were against it. “You did not wish to see him particularly this evening, then?” Anna hesitated. Courtlaw. It could not be a legal marriage. Ramage pursed his rather loose lips and shrugged his shoulders, with his eyes fixed steadily upon her. There was nothing on her face to hint of the misery that brimmed her heart this morning. ’ Gerald’s eyes never left the girl. She had eaten little or no tea, and her mid-day meal had been worse than nothing. It was long and narrow, with a ceiling supported by huge uncovered rafters, and so low as scarcely to allow a tall man like himself to stand erect beneath it. He dashed against the screen door before she could catch him and made the veranda. It shall be your wedding ring. You notice that I have recently spent ten francs on a box of the best Russian cigarettes, and that there are roses upon my table. 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. They sat face to face beneath an experienced-looking rucksack and a brand new portmanteau and a leather handbag, in the afternoon-boat train that goes from Charing Cross to Folkestone for Boulogne.
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