’ Melusine nodded. When her shock and the headache subsided, and she remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her, she looked for it in vain. ‘Well then, Melusine,’ he said calmly, ‘it seems as if we must get you your dowry willy-nilly. 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. I MUST. ” He examined the emerald in his hands and placed it carefully on the glass table. Rather! Who could help it?” He towered up over her and smiled down at her in his fatherly way. It was shameful, but again, her mother had prepared her for it. “Have some more port wine, sir?” “It’s a very sound wine,” said Mr. ’ Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment, grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself.
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