If you choose to requite me by detaining me, you are at liberty to do so. ’ She eyed him. The houses they flitted to and from were glutted with hangers-on, servant/mistresses, and errant prostitutes. Are you satisfied?’ Grudgingly, Jack Kimble took back the coins. “Well,” she admitted. “What is the good of pretending?” she said. ‘Go you through the passage and find the other door. He glanced up at the coachman. 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. He took a handful of almonds and raisins that she held out to him—for both these young people had given up the practice of going out for luncheon—and kept her hand for a moment to kiss her finger-tips.
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