“In the event of his death we
should require you at once to attend at the inquest. That is very bad indeed. “Have you anything to ask the witness?” asked the helpful inspector. 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. And for Suzanne and the
vicomte, I am nothing. "
"That's but a short distance from here, sir. Why open my mouth if there might not be a need for it when
all’s said?’
Melusine acknowledged the logic of this. Though, to be
fair, he did not know of it until after the wedding. ’
‘It is you who will get the head blown off,’ threatened the young lady fiercely.
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