" "Swear it!" "I do. Even now, my problems begin to catch up with me; they will discover me soon. Annabel had taken her life into her hands with gay insouciance, had made her own friends, gone her own way. I took the money myself, and ought to know. She pulled away from him, placing her fingers on his lips for a moment. "I was just thinking of you Jack. At last she glanced at a little clock in the corner of the room, and sprang to her feet. ‘Would you like me to enquire for your mystery lady, Gerald? I know the Comte and Comtesse de St Erme quite well. 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. Somewhere in the world would be his people, perhaps his mother; and it might soften the bitterness, of the return to consciousness if he found a woman at his bedside. The rest of the crowd followed suit with weak laughter.
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