But you have not finished surely. ” Anna glanced up. “I suppose you’ll come to the point soon—if there is one. With a rustle of her full lilac petticoats, Miss Froxfield turned back to Alderley. ” “You did,” Anna exclaimed. ” There followed an instant’s pause, and then Ann Veronica had decided to misunderstand. “There are a good many Whites in London. I told her I was sick today and she told me to get over myself. There was no way to warn her of his presence without startling 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. He only stays here for you, hoping in vain. ” She had no way of retaliating, so she made a decision. We middle-aged fools and we old fools can no longer dream. Of course I know nothing of what really did happen in Paris—if even you ever saw him there. It is different.
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