God only knows what I have done, or left undone. ” “I can spare it,” Anna answered suavely. If, when he returned, he blew out the light, she would go to bed; but if the light burned on for any length of time, she would go silently to the study curtain to learn if his agony was still upon him. " "I sha'n't want these curtains. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. Besides, how am I to ride home without them?" "Don't distress yourself," returned Jack, "you shall walk. All the sombre visions she had been pressing back, fighting out of her thoughts, swarmed over the barrier and crushed her. Hilary threw up his eyes. “I have a letter for you, and no end of messages. ‘Marry an Englishman! Which Englishman?’ Melusine shrugged. Ann Veronica sat firelit by her tea-tray with, quite unconsciously, the air of an expert hostess. Lassitude?” “I suppose so. How I wish I might meet this delightful mystery lady of yours. 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.
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