” Meddoes turned round from the table on which he was practising shots and shrugged his shoulders. As no apprehension was entertained of an escape by this outlet,—nothing of the kind having been attempted by the boldest felon ever incarcerated in Newgate,—both doors were generally left open during the daytime. 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. Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him! An obsession is a blind spot. If my conjectures are right, this boy would stay there indefinitely. "She is in his power, and I am here, chained hand and foot, unable to assist her. ‘And I trust you will pardon my inadequacies. She went to the basement and shed her sodden coat and scarf, tossing them into her favorite modern appliance, the electric dryer. It was like the grin of a fiend, and made my flesh creep on my bones. “Someone must have found it and taken good care of it. ’ Shock spread across her lovely features. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment.
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