”
“Poor you!” said Ann Veronica. You've been a great
help these five days; for he had to have attendance constantly, and neither Wu
nor I could have given that. He stirred
continually, thrusting his legs about and flinging his arms above his head. ’
‘Aye, miss,’ Kimble agreed, taking the garments, ‘but where will I find you?’
‘I do not know. 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 am guilty practically of the
impertinence of coming to ask you whether I misunderstood your sister. He would know the
truth then once and for all. Spurling: "I blush for you, Sir! To call
yourself a man, and interfere with the natural course of affection! Have you no
feeling for the situation of those poor disconsolate creatures, about to be
bereaved of all they hold dear? Is it nothing to part with a husband to the
gallows? I've lost four in the same way, and know what it is. All she needed to do was to have a body. In all his life he had never realized a dream; but
the thought had never before hurt him. ‘The nuns, they teach
prayer and obedience. "
Spurlock, who was absorbing this talk thirstily, laughed. She was the type that
people of every age gravitated to, naturally affable and
kind to everyone.
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