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The Legacy of Cain, The Original Novel: (Wilkie Collins Classic Collection)

The Legacy of Cain, The Original Novel: (Wilkie Collins Classic Collection)

Collins, Wilkie

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1511431989
ISBN13: 9781511431989
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 24 2015
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
When I die to-morrow, she said, I leave my child helpless and friendless-disgraced by her mother's shameful death. The workhouse may take her-or a charitable asylum may take her. She paused; a first tinge of color rose on her pale face; she broke into an outburst of rage. Think of my daughter being brought up by charity! She may suffer poverty, she may be treated with contempt, she may be employed by brutal people in menial work. I can't endure it; it maddens me. If she is not saved from that wretched fate, I shall die despairing, I shall die cursing- The Minister sternly stopped her before she could say the next word. To my astonishment she appeared to be humbled, to be even ashamed: she asked his pardon: Forgive me; I won't forget myself again. They tell me you have no children of your own. Is that a sorrow to you and your wife?

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