’
***
Gerald Alderley stepped out of a house he had been visiting in Hamilton Place
and the door closed behind him. ‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’
‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding
almost through his teeth. I once saw a man die after collapsing that way. The boy doesn't know it, but I dug into his trunk for something to identify
him and stumbled upon some manuscripts. “We’ve never known anyone who can play like you,
Lucy. Or,
after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards—
but one crosses it sometimes. Moments, indeed! We like each other fresh and fresh. 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 was afraid from the scream I heard, that
something dreadful had happened, Sir Rowland has a terrible temper indeed—a
shocking temper! I declare he frightens me out of my senses. 1. The next minute, I contrived, without either of 'em perceiving me, to
convey it into my own pocket.
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