Gerald closed the door and released Melusine, and then went to open the shutters on a window that faced the side of the house. I saw it this morning in the Daily Journal—an advertisement, offering a reward—" "A reward!" echoed Jack. So, not exactly hopefully but earnestly, she returned to the feet of God. 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. Ruth's emotion was a primitive joy: she was essential in this man's life, and she would always be happy because he would always be needing her. And most of the others she had met had, she felt, the same steadfastness. Ennison had disappeared.
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