” “That’s a relief. ’ Gerald was relieved to find the girl did not attempt to run away, but meekly allowed him to usher her into the spacious and comfortable library which was his habitual haunt when at home. "I fear we're too late," he whispered to Thames. ” He glanced over at her cockeyed, and then returned his gaze to the road. 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. That’s how it takes me. ’ ‘Well? Well? What did the fellow have to add to this rigmarole?’ ‘He confirmed that Nicholas Charvill—presumably Melusine’s father—had been disinherited for marrying Suzanne Valade. Having no more patience, I drew you aside to give you a compliment on your radiant beauty. “My brother’s room when he comes home. He fixed it. I want to make you feel that here is a place where the crowd does not clamor nor ill-winds blow. Why ain’t you gorn? Seems to me I had ought to arrest you. Jonathan looked in that direction, and beheld the fugitives riding off in triumph. She is more dear to me than anything else. “You’re splendid.
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