‘He is not in England, you understand. ’ Chapter Ten ‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old lady. The lady reseated herself, watching him expectantly. ’ His finger came out and Melusine felt it stroke her cheek. He breathed heavily, as though he had been running. ’ ‘But you must,’ Gerald said, quite as if he meant it. Please don’t tell anyone, mister. ’ ‘You should be happy that you are not dead,’ she retorted, but with a diminution of the venom and fright in her voice. It is better to face the truth. 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. I always told you some accident would happen. “Admirably, thank you,” Anna answered. It made her hungry. If Ann Veronica could have put words to that song they would have been, “Hot-blooded marriage or none!” but she was far too indistinct in this matter to frame any words at all. For a moment her thoughts led her back to the evening when she and Courtlaw had stood together before the window of her studio in Paris, before the coming of Sir John had made so many changes in her life.
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