That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless. They sat down at the dining room table which seemed empty and 259 huge in the stark, white-walled room. She had never been there before at that hour, in that light, and it seemed to her as if she came to it all for the first time. Larry Beck did his best to the flares of her temper from rising. “You must be the Miss Pellissier of whom David has told me so much,” he said, shyly. 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. Curiosity to see what a sing-song girl was like took possession of Ruth's thoughts. The air was sweet with the perfume of flowers, and the melody of murmuring insects, the blue sky was cloudless, the heat of the sun was tempered by the heather-scented west wind. ’ It was thus in stony silence that the pair traversed the short distance to Stratton Street, where Roding knocked on the major’s door and entered a pleasant woodpanelled hall, with his prisoner firmly in tow. So saying, he manfully resumed his work; while Wood and Thames quitted the room, and went down stairs. . She—She can snub him.
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