He smiled at Ruth as she turned away from the bed, smiled with both his mouth and eyes; and she knew that here would be a man of heart as well as of science. But recently he had asked God to pile it all on him; and God had added this, with a fresh portion for Ruth. ‘From the convent, where else?’ ‘It does not strike me that you can possibly have been in a convent. Teddy went round by the garden backs and dropped the bag over the fence. 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. "I can't make you understand; I can't make you see things as I see them. “Odd!” she said. ’ Gerald could not resist. “Dinner is served, ma’am,” he announced to Mrs.
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