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“Out with it, then,” he cried, almost roughly. The baby was placed in her
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lap. “Compromise and kindness. Maggot. Disappointed puppy-love, and all that. ”
Annabel leaned back in her chair and laughed till the tears stood in her eyes. Even were she to
get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call,
unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their
absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate. Her momentary instinct was
to run to him and be comforted, like the old times. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. And if he would, I would
not subject him to the annoyance. Her patience was waning fast. And, though the villain can't see his
orders executed, I've no doubt some one else will. How will I protect myself if you do not?’
‘If you will only confide in me, I will be happy to protect you,’ Gerald said
cheerfully. “It is like old times,” she said, “to hear these home truths.
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