“I am sure, Anna,” she said, “I do not see why we should conceal the truth from you. He made his headquarters at the Victoria on the Sha-mien, and generally met the Hong-Kong packet in the morning. ” Annabel pulled down her veil to hide the tears. ” “You shouldn’t have made an engagement until you’d consulted your aunt. It was the very spot from which his poor mother had gazed after her vain attempt to rescue him at the Mint; but, though he was ignorant of this, her image was alone present to him. It would be an ice storm by midnight if it did not let up. This spot, which still retains its name, acquired the appellation from an old crone who lived there, and who, in addition to a very equivocal character for honesty, enjoyed the reputation of being a witch. It’s no good hiding it any more. 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 dared not sing, I dared not laugh, except when you went away. If he took a fancy to you, he invited you to the house for tea, bitter and yellow and served in little cups without handles.
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