This girl whom he had met by chance and befriended had done both. ‘You wish to tell me something? Parbleu, I have nearly forgot once more. During the previous night he had been restless; and in the lonely dragging hours his thoughts had raced in an endless circle—action without progress. She would come and sit cross-legged just beyond the bamboo curtain and silently watch him at work. Ann Veronica had one of her flashes of insight. “We sent for you several hours ago,” he remarked. 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.
Video ID: TW96aWxsYS81LjAgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbzsgY29tcGF0aWJsZTsgQ2xhdWRlQm90LzEuMDsgK2NsYXVkZWJvdEBhbnRocm9waWMuY29tKSAtIDMuMTQ2LjE3OC4xNjUgLSAyMi0wOS0yMDI0IDAwOjI5OjI2IC0gMTA0MTc2MDMzMg==
This video was uploaded to theblogfullofgames.com on 17-09-2024 08:54:31
Related resources: Ref1 - Ref2 - Ref3 - Ref4 - Ref5 - Ref6 - Ref7 - Ref8 - Ref9 - Ref10 - Ref11 - Ref12 - Ref13