A smile trembled at the corners of her mouth as she recalled Gerald’s
ridiculous upbraiding of his own reflection in the mirror. ‘I suppose I need not ask to
which other soldier you refer. I trust that she will not misunderstand me. "
"Jack," replied Thames, greatly moved, "I wish I could devise any means of
brightening your own dark prospects. ” She gazed at him. “Well,” he said slowly, “I had met you three times—before Drummond’s
dinner. 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. His brows drew a little nearer
together. ” He said. Ann Veronica hesitated with a question that had leaped up in her mind, and
that she felt was cruel. F. ”
“But Italy—”
“Italy’s for a good girl,” he said, and laid his hand for a moment on her
shoulder. Accepting his glass from the butler, Gerald glanced at Mrs Sindlesham and
saw a dimple peep out. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock
had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and
prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. She too at once developed an
anxious interest in the street outside.
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