1 "I can't help her myself: she's passed out of my reach," she continued.
2 "The only way I can help you is by loving you," Selden said in a low voice.
3 It was clear to her that Lily, for the present, had no wish for the kind of help she could give.
4 Impulses of sympathy came naturally to her, and it was instinctive to proffer her help to Mrs. Fisher.
5 "Yes: I know him; he will help you," she said; and in a moment Lily's passion was weeping itself out against her breast.
6 "I can't see how I can possibly be of any help to you," she murmured, drawing back a little from the mounting excitement of his look.
7 He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth.
8 Having once helped Lily, she must continue to help her; and helping her, must believe in her, because faith is the main-spring of such natures.
9 I do ask you, then; I ask you because she once told me that you had been a help to her, and because she needs help now as she has never needed it before.
10 For there was no mistaking the definite intention behind his vague appeal; she could have filled up the blanks without the help of Mrs. Fisher's insinuations.
11 She was fond of pictures and flowers, and of sentimental fiction, and she could not help thinking that the possession of such tastes ennobled her desire for worldly advantages.
12 She did, at least, a great deal to adorn it; and as he watched the bright security with which she bore herself, he smiled to think that he should have fancied her in need of help.
13 Lord Hubert had promised his help, with the readiness on which she could always count: it was his only way of ever reminding her that he had once been ready to do so much more for her.
14 Regina's she had spent her days in the streets, partly to escape from the uncongenial promiscuities of the boarding-house, and partly in the hope that physical fatigue would help her to sleep.
15 The end of it was that, after anxious enquiry and much deliberation, Mrs. Fisher and Gerty, for once oddly united in their effort to help their friend, decided on placing her in the work-room of Mme.
16 But for the present, if he clung to her, it was not in order to be dragged up, but to feel some one floundering in the depths with him: he wanted her to suffer with him, not to help him to suffer less.
17 She paused a moment, and added in a lighter tone: "I didn't mean to bore you with all this, but I want your help in making Judy understand that I can't, at present, go on living as one must live among you all."
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