"I'll have my cot in here," said Spurlock to Ruth, "where this table is. 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. The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. “If you think it worth while,” she answered doubtfully. She sensed a pelvic exam
coming on. “A girl needs her mother most exactly when
she thinks she doesn’t. But that title
he would not endure. “Bring any new songs you may have. She were that miserable. Take me to the Stone Room. They turned off at Glen Grove, a sleepy town of less
than two hundred. “We are both of us trenching upon forbidden ground,” she said.
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