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She did not let him go on. "But my child!" she shrieked. "You see what he writes! I should have to leave him, and I can’t and won’t do that." "But, for God’s sake, which is better?—leave your child, or keep up this degrading position?" "To whom is it degrading?" "To all, and most of all to you." "You say degrading ... don’t say that. Those words have no meaning for me," she said in a shaking voice. She did not want him now to say what was untrue. She had nothing left her but his love, and she wanted to love him. "Don’t you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me? For me there is one thing, and one thing only—your love. If that’s mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me. I am proud of my position, because ... proud of bein