In fact he was thinking of other things. ’ He smiled down at her. ”
Anna’s eyes were a little dim as she poured out her coffee, and the laugh she
attempted was not altogether a success. “I don’t see that his
being a good sort matters. "
"Get hence," continued Mrs. ‘Think it’s worth getting some sort of light and following her down there?’
asked Roding. "Pray, make no further mystery;
but tell me all without reserve. ’
Gerald moved to the long sofa, dusted it with elaborate care with one of its
cushions, and with a gesture invited her to sit down. It was horrible. Well, I told aunt. 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 is in the secret passage. Carried out to sea by Van Galgebrok,
and thrown overboard, while struggling with the waves, he had been picked up
by a French fishing-boat, and carried to Ostend.
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