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. “So you found Rhea, I see. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. That is why I am glad that she has gone to London. For heaven’s sake, give him some Madeira or something,
Gerald! Anything to calm him down. For she knew that men married to get something. Women to me are something so serene, so
fine, so feminine, and politics are so dusty, so sordid, so wearisome and
quarrelsome. ’
Releasing her, he turned and walked swiftly towards the door. They laughed and talked and stared about them. ‘Don’t tell
me you’ve found her!’
‘Ah, Gérard,’ uttered the girl in a gratified tone as Major Alderley walked
through into the light. “Forgive me, madam,” he said stiffly, “but in such a case as this it is better that
nothing in the room should be disturbed until the arrival of the police. ” Michelle said. Almost worthy of your own fertile imagination. Cloud
back of your hat!" He opened his eyes again. He
walked in her direction.
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