‘To begin with,’ he said, ‘allow me a very tiny intimacy. If I could but——” To escape from her thoughts she began to undress, humming a light tune to herself, though her eyes were hot with unshed tears, and the sobs kept rising in her throat. ‘I do not believe you. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. So dreadful were these shouts as to produce an effect upon the hardened feelings of Jonathan, who shrank out of sight. She tried surreptitiously to reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat. I do—with all my heart. ’ ‘You were quite as bad to me as I was to you,’ Gerald protested mildly, sitting down beside her. ’ ‘I imagine it must be a relief to you, after so lucky an escape. I want him as my friend.
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