[Richard Vandermarck by Miriam Coles Harris]@TWC D-Link bookRichard Vandermarck CHAPTER XXIII 8/16
You were not taking advantage of my necessity.
You were saving me, and I am ashamed of myself when I think of everything.
Oh, Richard, where did you learn to be so good!" A spasm of pain crossed his face, and he turned away from me. "If you give me up," I said timidly, "who will take care of me ?" "There will be plenty now," he answered bitterly. "There wasn't anybody yesterday." "But there will be to-morrow.
No, Pauline," he said, lifting his head and speaking in a firmer voice, "What I thought I was doing, till this showed me my heart, and how I had deceived myself, I will do now, even if it kills me.
I thought I was acting for your good, and from a sense of duty: now that I know what is for your good, and what is my duty, I will go on in that, and nothing shall turn me from it, so help me Heaven." "At least you will forgive me," I said, with tears, "for all the things that I have made you suffer." "Yes," he said, with some emotion, "I shall forgive you sooner than I shall forgive myself.
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