He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. Annabel had been here then. The cultivated indifference, which was part of the armour of his little world fell away from him. "It was some time before I could get him to move. He bent over to Anna at once. “Really, daddy, I am sorry for all I have done to put you out. Earles?” he inquired. ‘I have an arthritic complaint, which is why you find me retired from fashionable life. For her it was sufficient to know that somebody wanted her, that never again would she be alone, that always this boy with the dreams would be depending upon her. 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.
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