“Hainault was Celeste’s friend, and Celeste was Annabel’s enemy,” Courtlaw said. His mother smiled in return, an act that brightened her thin face. ” Annabel had been lying curled up on the lounge, the personification of graceful animal ease. ’ ‘It’s immaterial, in any event,’ Roding put in. “Yes,” said Ann Veronica, trying to think where they were, trying to get things plain again that had seemed plain enough in the quiet of the night. 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. And then suddenly—a relief. But his gloom appeared to be occasioned by remorse, rather than sorrow.
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