“You met no one upon the stairs, or saw no one leave the flats?”
“No one,” Anna answered firmly. "There's a
guinea to drink our health," she added, slipping a piece of money into his hand. I couldn’t help the thought. 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. ”
“Served the beast right,” Ennison declared. ‘And I trust you will pardon my inadequacies. ‘Do you think it is the
man in the moon that I mean? What is it that Gérard has told you?’
‘That you need help. Recognising the handwriting, he glanced swiftly at the signature, and uttering
an explosive curse, cast the paper from him. She felt very cool as he
opened the door for her, as if she should have chic
sunglasses and stiletto heels on, dark red lipstick.
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