Excerpt from The Hollands All that's over now, Jessamine, for her, but for us it's the old story again, for a number of years, at least. There's no help for it. I've looked the thing fairly in the face, turned it round on every side. It will be only the old strain and scramble, wearing out youth and hepe for each of us. It's a long, hard pull for a fellow in the city without friends or influence of any sort, and there would be years of drudgery at some clerkship on a pittance of a salary, before I could provide you ...
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Excerpt from The Hollands All that's over now, Jessamine, for her, but for us it's the old story again, for a number of years, at least. There's no help for it. I've looked the thing fairly in the face, turned it round on every side. It will be only the old strain and scramble, wearing out youth and hepe for each of us. It's a long, hard pull for a fellow in the city without friends or influence of any sort, and there would be years of drudgery at some clerkship on a pittance of a salary, before I could provide you or myself with a comfortable home and beat the wolf from the door. But, Jessamine, you're all i ve got in the world now, and come to the point, it's so tough to leave you, that, if you say the word, I'll give it all up and stay here, and do the best I can. This time the p'ause was longer, and into it there came no sobs. There were struggling breaths though. You knew she was girding up her soul to speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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