‘It is necessary that one is at all times ready to protect oneself,’ explained the young lady flatly. They sat in the windowed booth at the restaurant across from each other. ‘Do you swear it? There’s no knowing if one can believe you. Or at least he did the day before yesterday. It reached her only slowly that Ann Veronica was standing to her resolution. He walked in her direction. Interrogation takes many forms, you know, Lucy. En tout cas, no one has asked you to puzzle out anything at all. You have just passed through rather a severe physical struggle; just as previously to your collapse you had gone through some terrific mental strain. Mike offered twice to beat John up, but Lucy talked him out of it much to his disappointment. At length, about an hour before dawn on the second day—Sunday—having spent the early part of the night in watching at the gates of the robbers' sanctuary, and being almost exhausted from want of rest, she set out homewards. Courtlaw sat with folded arms. “Do I understand you then to refuse my offer?” he asked Anna. 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. He looked at his port wine as though that tawny ruby contained the solution of the matter.
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