’ Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald spoke of them. He smiled complacently. ’ ‘And me,’ came the guttural response, ‘I will certainly murder you the very next time I am compelled to see your face. ’ ‘Nothing of the sort,’ Gerald said calmly, sipping at his burgundy. “I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your mother these days. Dare we look back upon the darkened vista, and, in imagination retrace the path we have trod? With how many vain hopes is it shaded! with how many good resolutions, never fulfilled, is it paved! Where are the dreams of ambition in which, twelve years ago, we indulged? Where are the aspirations that fired us—the passions that consumed us then? Has our success in life been commensurate with our own desires—with the anticipations formed of us by others? Or, are we not blighted in heart, as in ambition? Has not the loved one been estranged by doubt, or snatched from us by the cold hand of death? Is not the goal, towards which we pressed, further off than ever—the prospect before us cheerless as the blank behind?—Enough of this. I decided to go in and wait. " Her utterance was here choked by sobs. Ann Veronica ignored her friend’s confusion. Things happened frequently over here that wouldn't happen in the States once in a hundred years. Wild," replied the other, "a little shaken, that's all. They turned off at Glen Grove, a sleepy town of less than two hundred. But, rather than be the cause of any further misunderstanding between you and my benefactor, I will leave London and its neighbourhood for ever. “Let’s go outside.
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