‘Why do you think I told you about the portrait? I’d not seen it, of course, but I’d seen Miss Mary just before she got married, which is when it was painted. A woman may choose any one for her lover, but for her friend she makes no mistake. But even you cannot alter her character. For that such a man does not mind about the dowry, he must be in love en désespoir. “I want to ask you a question,” he said. “Very well,” said her father. . “I don’t have time for this. I'm ashamed to say that I was too much terrified to scream out—but ran and hid myself. 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. Still unconscious of anything he did physically.
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