He too looked at the girl, slackened his pace and looked at her
again through his eye-glasses, looked over his shoulder after he had passed, and
finally came to a dead stop. And God had let him do it! He was—and
now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man
had ever entered. . F. “Of course I’m manager for this expedition,” he
said, after an interval of self-examination. ”
“He said, ‘Poor Alice has got no end!’”
“Alice’s are different,” said Ann Veronica, after an interval. “I don’t think you realize,” Ann Veronica began again, “that I am rather a
defective human being. 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 must leave England to-night. ”
Sir John breathed a long deep sigh. She
thought gleefully of the dress she would get to wear for
the Ball (Prom?) and could not wait to tell her foster
family about how excited she was. “No, those are my brother’s dog tags. “You might at least,” she murmured, “have invented a more romantic reason. The Enschede Bible—the one out of which she read—had been strangely
mutilated. He doesn't resemble you
at all.
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