“I don’t see at all how you can be managing,” said Miss Stanley, and Ann Veronica hastened to reply, “I do on very little. I am an independent sort of person,” she continued, “and I am engaged in an attempt to earn my own living. It doesn't look bad, does it?" "Mercy, no! That wasn't the thought. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?” “I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. Perhaps an hour later he would begin again. Her nurse says she may live some time; but she seems to me to be sinking fast. ’ She halted, her pistol still held firm and straight, both hands gripping it, her expressive features at once determined and uncertain. He folded the garments carefully and replaced them on the chair. "You've won your wager. But, if you have come to surrender yourself to justice, it is well. 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’ve muddled all this business.
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