‘Then open it quickly. ” Chapter XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room with a deferential little gesture. My father has made every possible inquiry, and offered large rewards; but has not been able to discover the slightest trace of him. Sebastian had come to visit his old friend and former wife. Certainly I never met him. ‘I have a very good mind to do so, imbecile. I’m off to England. If I could but——” To escape from her thoughts she began to undress, humming a light tune to herself, though her eyes were hot with unshed tears, and the sobs kept rising in her throat. Such was the condition of his mind that the danger exhilarated rather than depressed him. Even in this dread moment Ruth was conscious of a pathetic interest in the scattering pencils. 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. I saw it this morning in the Daily Journal—an advertisement, offering a reward—" "A reward!" echoed Jack. It wasn't worth while to invest imaginatively a man with evil projects simply because he was physically ugly.
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