I never have known you. He had set out to win her, and she had let him start. I could see his little animal brain churning away, inventing plans for me, formulating his revenge. And not on Melusine’s account, but to see Prudence, who had no use for a cavalier. There he paused again, half turning his back and pretending to look for someone among the soldiers on the benches. But Melusine had overcome the weakness, calling the loss but a temporary setback. Anna looked at her curiously, and with sinking heart. 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. Sir John saw it, and was flattered. Leastways, she’d be your greataunt, wouldn’t she?’ Astounded, Melusine was just about to demand further information, when a commotion outside the room interrupted her. She would lure him, as he was an easily tempted child predator who could even more easily be turned into prey.
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