“Oh! life is hard,” she said. “I can’t. They—they wouldn’t let me stop in London.” - novel fiction
She explained if Lagune dismissed her she was to go into the country to an aunt, a sister of Chaffery’s who needed a companion. Chaffery insisted upon that. “Companion they call it. I shall be just a servant—she has no servant. My mother cries when I talk to her. She tells me she doesn’t want me to go away from her. But she’s afraid of him. ‘Why don’t you do what he wants?’ she says.”“I hate telling you these things. It is you ... If you didn’t mind ... But you make it all different.
He paused and then became eloquent. “The world is against us, against—us. To you it offers money to cheat—to be ignoble. For it is ignoble! It offers you no honest way, only a miserable drudgery. And it keeps you from me. And me too it bribes with the promise of success—if I will desert you ... You don’t know all ... We may have to wait for years—we may have to wait for ever, if we wait until life is safe. We may be separated.... We may lose one another altogether.... Let us fight against it.
She did not grasp his emotional quality. She looked at him with puzzled eyes—still practical—making the suggestion arithmetical.“It’s not a question of ways and means. Now. Ethel—I have longed—”
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