’ Gerald suppressed a grin. But this is a great lark, Ann Veronica! This turns life into a glorious adventure!” “Ah!” she cried in triumph. ‘Aha,’ grunted Gerald with satisfaction, squinting up at the two open shutters on the second floor. Meanwhile, the excitement of the chase had in some degree subsided. ” She put her wrists upon his shoulders, feeling him surge with the pride of his own masculinity as she touched him. Yet in some hidden corner was a vein of sentiment, of which for the first time in his later life he was now unexpectedly aware. “I’ve fallen in love. ‘I rather suspect,’ added Prudence, ‘that Major Alderley’s motives were somewhat different. 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. Anna picked up an ancient magazine, and began to turn over the pages in a leisurely way. "Let us sit here," she said, indicating the white sand bordering the lagoon; "and in a minute or two you will see something quite wonderful. ‘What you can do, Lucy, rather than make enquiries, is introduce me to this comte and comtesse. Never a new-born dragon-fly that spread its wings in the morning has felt as glad as I!” CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH IN PERSPECTIVE Part 1 About four years and a quarter later—to be exact, it was four years and four months—Mr.
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