He left that arid rule
clear of the least mist of refinement or delicacy. ”
“YOU ASKED YOUR FATHER FOR A REASON!” said Miss Miniver, with
great intensity. ‘I thought it was his great-nephew, young Brewis
Charvill, who is his heir. That poor child, trying to
escape, and not knowing how. He walked on for an hour longer, till he could scarcely drag one
leg after another. Melusine dashed them away, but they kept on coming. That would be an unkind twist of fate. On this fresh
outburst of the storm, Wood threw himself instinctively into the bottom of the
boat, and clasping the little orphan to his breast, endeavoured to prepare himself
to meet his fate. They are arbitrary
and unjust and dogmatic and brutish and lustful. ’
‘Ah, so that’s where Valade comes in,’ nodded Lucy. 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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