” “Anna!” “It is true, dear. "I did not know … that it was … like that!" She stepped back; but as his hands fell she caught and held them tightly. Her aunt returned before the packing was done, and Ann Veronica lunched with an uneasy sense of bag and hold-all packed up-stairs and inadequately hidden from chance intruders by the valance of the bed. If I had been your companion only, and not your master, I might very well have been content to accept you for what you seem. Now he would take her away from the house before killing her, and no one would find her body at all. “A ballot-box, you know,” he said, “is very largely just a box. "I took you for one who wouldn't hesitate to avail himself of any advantage chance might throw in his way," returned the thief-taker, coldly. She would marry him. Maybe the girl was telling the truth, and then again, maybe she wasn't. One trouble, however, shot its slanting bolts athwart the shining warmth of that opening day and marred its perfection, and that was the thought of her father. He had a wild impulse to shout. “Don’t be an ass, Ferringhall,” he said tersely. 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.
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