Into this new world, vivid with colour, came Spurlock, receptively. “Quite alone, sir. She brought the cups
of cocoa back to the bedroom. “My dear child,” he said, “with me you need have no apprehension. Neither would she allow herself
to feel guilty nor would she allow him to find a way into
the house. It was situated off a little
hallway that led also to the kitchens and the back door to the outside. Have you not given your life to God? Do you not repent?’
Coming to the bed, Melusine sat beside her old nurse and took hold of one of her
hands. 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. Ruth, without suspecting it, had fallen upon a fundamental truth: that each and
every book fitted into the scheme of human moods and intelligence. She went to market every day to fetch the daily bread
and more herbs for more medicines and potions, plus
treats for the apprentices made of honey and almond
paste. Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. The militiaman at once thrust the old man
between the shoulder blades, pushing him into the kitchen. He had not remembered her as looking so
small.
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