"And, oh! forgive me, though I can never forgive myself, for the misery I have caused you. ” “Oh. I—listen. Lucy arranged her hair as Michelle had taught her instead of combing it out. She is English! I am sure of that. . Only she is not Madame Valade at all. I owed his father a grudge: that I settled long ago. Vite, I pray you. Some day I'm going to paint her; but that will be when I've retired. ” “Annabel, are you mad? To England! You are joking, of course. Ennison too, always handsome and debonnair, seemed transported out of his calm self. Vanity was a vice not just to be deprecated, but effectively strangled at birth. She stared out of the paned glass window, watching the trees being blown bare by the gale force. 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.
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