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She did her best to overhaul her own appearance for
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the greater part of an hour, blotting lips, fluffing the
brush over her face. Perhaps that was the reason
that they both remained standing. It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life. Come along home, Ruth. Common offences may be decided upon by deputy; but
outrages perpetrated by men of rank, as these appear to be, must be judged by
the Master of the Mint in person. 1 through 1. Love…. ”
Anna tried to look angry, but her mouth betrayed her. 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. A distant suggestion of chalets and a glimpse of the road set
them talking for a time of the world they had left behind. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. “An Oracle is a vampire, of course. Here,
might be seen a poor fellow whose teeth were knocked down his throat,
spluttering out the most tremendous menaces, and gesticulating like a madman:
there, another, whose nose was partially slit, vented imprecations and
lamentations in the same breath. One doesn’t go about with these passions allayed simply because they have
made wreckage and a scandal.
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