’
‘Damnation!’ Gerald burst out, crossing towards her. His inclinations prompted him most
decidedly to take the vacant chair. He laughed at her
heartily, and she laughed too as she had not for a year. “Dear me! I wonder what I ought to do. “Last time I saw you,” he reminded her, “you spoke, did you not, of obtaining
some employment in London. 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. Brendon. Under his arm he carried a thick, knotted crab-stick. You’re mine. "
"Who are you?" ejaculated Trenchard, scarcely able to credit his senses. "
"Not I," replied Jack; "I'm too comfortable where I am. ’
‘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.
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