I’ve never had these crying fits before. ’ ‘Pah!’ scoffed Melusine. His face clouded with anger. " "Aye!" was McClintock's inaudible affirmative. She drifted back into the welcoming arms of sleep, feeling herself surrounded in silk. Poor girl! she was beautiful once; so beautiful as to make me, who care little for the allurements of women, fancy myself enamoured of her. 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. “The fact is—I don’t know why—this takes me by surprise. She was herself conscious of a recklessness of spirits almost hysterical. Perhaps her odd beauty—and that too was natural—stirred these thoughts into being. " The prison bars of circumstance, they no longer encompassed her. ‘Is that why you allowed me in, ma’am?’ A dimple appeared in the faded cheek.
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