He did not explain what had happened to her. ” She pointed to the envelope still resting upon the mantelpiece. ’ ‘But he’s a major of militia, miss. But luncheon and dinners you will sit at my table. “H’m!” he said, regarding the wreckage with a calmer visage. “We have no airs and graces here, and my hat hangs from a peg in the passage. ” “You must admit,” he declared, “that to us—who had seen you—the thought of your trying anything else was amazing. It was a copy of the pencil sketch taken of him nine years ago by Winifred, and awakened a thousand tender recollections. 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. Your father has forbidden you to go!’” “Well?” “She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to that ball!’” “Felt it her duty!” “‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business. But her husband, whose deportment to her was considerably changed since the fatal knot had been tied, paid no attention whatever to her grief. The rejection caught him like a slap in the face. On the stranger's appearance, she was seated near the window busily occupied with her needle.
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