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. Who she is I have not discovered, but she is masquerading as Melusine, and for all I know, is not even married to the man who calls himself Valade. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. He was in a curious state of desperation. It’s no half reform either. ‘Knew you had the lad with you, and thought you were merely delayed. “Perhaps you will not object to answering one for me. ’ The possibility was indeed remote, for there had been no trouble with France since the Peace of Versailles had been signed six years ago. “You yourself have decided that—apart from the question of Annabel.
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