Melusine came back to the present to discover that tears were rolling down her cheeks. The thought did not occur to her, for all thought had flown out of her head. Then she went in and up-stairs, hesitated on the landing, and finally, a little breathless and with an air of great dignity, opened the door and walked into Ann Veronica’s room. 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. “The man alone could supply any, and if he recovers sufficiently to say anything, what he would say would exonerate you. The characters of the youthful occupants of the room might be detected in every article it contained. As you brew so must you drink. You understand that term?” Ann Veronica smiled faintly. If Thames Darrell escapes, you will lose both life and property. When she confessed all this to her charge, telling the now grown up babe that there was no hope in the world of establishing any claim, she very soon discovered her mistake.
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