"Women must have their wills while they live, since they can make none when
they die," observed Wood, as he imprinted a kiss of reconciliation on the plump
hand of his consort;—a sentiment to the correctness of which the party chiefly
interested graciously vouchsafed her assent. The vault, in which Sir Rowland found himself, resembled in some measure the
cabin of a ship. Sheppard, with a faint smile and a doubtful
shake of the head, as Wood drew her to a seat beside him, "for I've had my full
share of misery. \"I wasn't aware that I had rejected him, or so harshly. Ann Veronica tried to keep hold of a
complicated situation and not lose her head. She had eaten little
or no tea, and her mid-day meal had been worse than nothing. 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. "Don't look at it, I entreat," she cried. "
Jack, meanwhile, was carried to Newgate. A dressing-room then. It seemed to her that her father was in some inexplicable
way meaner-looking than she had supposed, and yet also, as unaccountably,
appealing. The other must call a coach as quickly as he can. She pulled her veil down, and he knew that
silence was best.
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