“But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with a pipe on the mantel. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. ‘Stand where you are, or I shoot!’ Like lightning, thoughts zipped through her mind. Brown engaged in the usual browbeating and complaining he reserved for sections who came in late and soloists who left tempo behind like the leftovers of a Sunday picnic. “She must look forward to Italy. We've never caught him cheating at cards; too clever; but we know he cheats. The Goopes were the oddest little couple conceivable, following a fruitarian career upon an upper floor in Theobald’s Road. CHAPTER I. He sat in much the same attitude, and she stood just as she had stood when he told her she could not go to the Fadden Dance. 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. "Here, wife—hostess—fetch me that bottle from the second shelf in the corner cupboard. “Aren’t we all just odds and ends of humanity —the left-overs, you know. “It was fine and brave of you. S. You will forgive my remarking, Anna, that I consider there is a great change in your manner towards me and your general deportment since our marriage.
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