To
write under a pseudonym!—to be forced to disown his children! He could not
write under his own name, enjoy the fruits of fame should these tales prove
successful. Both the fugitive and his chasers embarked on the
Thames. It was horrible, but what
could she do? She meant to live her own life, and he meant, with contempt and
insults, to prevent 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. I came to beg you instead to do
me the honour of becoming my wife. And a
ballot-box—” Her face assumed an expression of intellectual conflict.
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