“And let’s have a look at you, Vee!” said Mr. "The ban-dogs!" thundered a tall man, whose stature and former avocations had procured him the nickname of "The long drover of the Borough market. “Who decorated the school like this?” She asked, peering up at the multicolored banners that hung everywhere. "Aha! my lad!" he cried without appearing to regard the pain of the wound; "now I'll show you no quarter. Quite soon, after we were married—it was just within a year—I formed a friendship with the wife of a friend, a woman eight years older than myself. 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. Her fingers closed upon it instinctively. If it hadn’t been for Professor Russell standing up for him, they say he would have had to leave. Strange, I could never learn her history. He looked at her guiltily.
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