I did not even know where to write and thank you. “Our interest lies in heading them off. \"
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She commented as more doors slammed. ‘It is, you understand, that Monsieur Charvill did not—how do you say in
English?—having an eye to an eye—’
‘Didn’t see eye to eye with the Vicomte Valade? That I can well believe. ‘For that, I must conceal that I also have enjoyed the kiss. Lucy looked about confusedly. ‘You are, I think,
a gentleman, no?’
Gerald bowed. ”
“It seems so—so unworthy”—she picked among her phrases “of the noble
love you give—”
She stopped, through the difficulty she found in expressing herself. 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. The latter were
saved; but of the former nothing but the blackened stone walls were found
standing on the morrow.
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