CHAPTER X Ah Cum was himself puzzled. But, as he made no answer, he was removed. And pouring the contents of a small powderflask into a bumper of brandy, he tendered him the mixture. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. We are very poor, but manage to squeeze a little happiness out of each day. I don't ask you to supply my place—for that is, perhaps, impossible. He talked with his manner gentle and kindly. But for Ruth, he, Howard Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned. And now I find, when it is too late, that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. Frequently he would take up a box of talc and send a shower down his back, or fill his palms with the powder and rub his face and arms and hands. Even Mike can make a pretty tasty hamburger. "Where is the boy?" demanded Sir Rowland. ’ ‘So Charvill did tell him,’ Gerald said, once more staring into the hole in the wall. 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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