For all her begging she had been given the choice to go into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing babies. He never felt any need to explain himself. 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. But she must not laugh. There was only one sound—the fall of the sea upon the main beach, and even that said: "Hush! Hush! Hus-s-sh!" Not a leaf stirred, not a shadow moved. Vorsack sauntered into the room, sporting her usual toothy thin254 lipped grin. Then Sheila noticed the stains. “It was inevitable,” he declared. ‘But I ain’t been idle, miss, I swear it. “For one thing, Anna,” she remarked, “we had not the slightest idea that you had left, or were leaving Paris. I may say that the amount of the annuity I propose to allow you is two hundred a year. ” He said happily. Peste, she had forgot the sword. His eyes were small and grey; as far apart and as sly-looking as those of a fox. She knew now the supreme human energy which sent men to hell or carried them to their earthly heights.
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