"He never let me keep a dog or a cat about the house. “I think, perhaps if you will excuse me, that we will defer the luncheon. We have a very nice set of young people here too just at present, and you would soon make some friends. Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never yet been outside England. 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. Again the chalky pallor spread even to her lips, her eyes became lit with the old terror.
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