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Moving back to the corner again, she ran a hand back over the leather-bound
books—which, she realised, were not books at all. He did not love Ruth. She was weeping now. Stanley was
inclined to think the censorship should be extended to the supply of what he
styled latter-day fiction; good wholesome stories were being ousted, he said, by
“vicious, corrupting stuff” that “left a bad taste in the mouth. Behind them stalked Blueskin, enveloped in a
rough great-coat, called—appropriately enough in this instance,—a wrap-rascal. ”
Annabel laughed gaily. "
"I have promised. ‘Unless he is
himself a man of substance. Why should I
peep at it through smoked glass to see things that don’t affect me?” He smiled
his delight at his companion. She could not apply it in this
instance because she was not sure the application would be correct. "Do you take me for as great a villain as yourself, Sir?" said the knight, rising. His tie had demanded a struggle; he ought to have taken a clean one
after his first failure. More than ever Sir John was
glad that he had sat down. 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 next morning she went out with her post-office savings bank-book, and
telegraphed for a warrant to draw out all the money she had in the world.
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