“My name,” Anna replied calmly, “is certainly Pellissier, but I repeat that I do
not know you. ”
A little blond creature close at hand suddenly gave way to a fit of hysterical
laughter, and caught up the end of it with a sob. Ramage, I came here—I didn’t suppose for one moment you would dare
—”
“Nonsense! That is your mistake! You are too intellectual. 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. ‘And you, my girl, if you’d been born at all, would have been just what
you think you are. ”
Brendon was not inclined to be led away from the point.
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