Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. Kneebone will excuse you. You don’t know. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
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‘Pah!’
‘Precisely. ”
She gasped. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. A broken laugh followed the
action. Life seemed a very brave and glorious enterprise to Ann Veronica that day. "But to the point," continued Wild, unconscious of the peril in which the remark
had placed him,—"to the point. ” Lucy said, thinking of the Becks who
worked around the clock just to keep a tiny house in the
same neighborhood.
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