She paced restlessly to the door and back again, biting her tongue on the hot words begging to be uttered. Peste, where was her handkerchief? She remembered then that it had been lost in the struggle with Gerald. She looked down at him and was amazed to see him erect again, amazed at the incredible virility that he possessed. He had heard everything. A farthing candle, stuck in a bottle neck, shed its feeble light upon the table, which, owing to the provident kindness of Mr. ’ ‘So this is the way you serve me,’ exclaimed Melusine, her quick temper flaring as she jumped up, slammed her hands on the desk and leaned towards him over it. “I know you very well by sight, Sir John. 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. The miserable woman staggered, uttered a deep groan, and fell senseless on the straw. There was an air of repressed gaiety in her actions: the sense of freedom had returned; her heart was empty again. “What the hell.
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