Despair has eaten away at him, all these weeks at the Rainsworth estate, and the few days here in this strange land. Here, at least, no one will notice if he's gone. No more of Lady Shelly's fond entreaties and teasing, indefatigable in the task of trying to cheer him. No more of her child, her little daughter, staring at him with wide eyes and unexpectedly giving him nosegays (making him weep again, when she'd gone out of hearing).
He will do himself and the world a favor, he'd just decided, when...
"Don't leave me, Kevin," rings in his ears, a small girl's plaintive cry. ]
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Despair has eaten away at him, all these weeks at the Rainsworth estate, and the few days here in this strange land. Here, at least, no one will notice if he's gone. No more of Lady Shelly's fond entreaties and teasing, indefatigable in the task of trying to cheer him. No more of her child, her little daughter, staring at him with wide eyes and unexpectedly giving him nosegays (making him weep again, when she'd gone out of hearing).
He will do himself and the world a favor, he'd just decided, when...
"Don't leave me, Kevin," rings in his ears, a small girl's plaintive cry. ]
You are on your own.
We must..... must find you a proper protector.