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Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...had begged her not to do so yet, for he hoped every day that Jessie might be able to get up and come in. He had given Love the rent this week, she having been obliged to tell him that it was impossible for her to pay it. Owing to the long hours on the Great Western he could not get over to Whitechapel more than once or twice a week, so he had not discovered that she was out of work until the question of retaining the second room arose. It was quite clear that there was nothing more that could go from that room, for to get the table transported to the pawnbroker's would cost more than he would give for it, and the chair was worthless save for firewood. Loveday returned to the bedroom, trying to make up her mind to tell Jessie that she must stay where she was at least till the end of the week, when Westmore would bring some more money. But as she opened the door her eyes fell on her violin, which had lain neglected in its case these two days past. Up to this moment the idea of disposing of her instrument had not occurred to Love. It was so integral a part of her being, so indispensable to her, that the possibility of selling it had simply never entered her mind, and probably if she had only had her own needs to consider it never would have entered her mind. But affection simplifies sacrifice which is beyond the conception of mere self-interest. Jessie was very dear to Loveday, and when once the means of gratifying her wishes became apparent, Love did not hesitate for a moment on the score of her own feeling in the matter. To part with her precious violin, the friend and companion of so many years, her solace in grief, her confidante in joy, her alter ego, her higher self--this would indeed he a cruel wrench, but it weighed as nothing in the...
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