“No,” said her brother, conclusively, “it’s not for a parent to go on persuading a child. To escape one phase of loneliness she had plunged into another, so vast that her courage sometimes faltered. 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. "Mr. I came to beg you instead to do me the honour of becoming my wife. None of this by-play escaped Ruth, whose sense of humour needed no developing. ” “And who made the arrangements for you, and sent you there?” Courtlaw asked.
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