“I saw his face in a mirror. The eminent painter had handsome, expressive features, an aquiline nose, and a good deal of dignity in his manner. Anna thrust hers into her pocket unopened, and for the first time left the house without a smile upon her face. “What did it matter?” she cried. ’ He smiled down at her. The man was mad to marry me. “Don’t you know, child, that this is torture for me? What in God’s name more can you have to tell me?” Her face had become almost like a marble image. “I knew,” she said, in a low despairing tone, “that people would talk. Yet she took with her an uneasy consciousness that in this affair might lie the germs of future trouble. 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. Lucy’s guts ached with jealousy and bitterness, building in a knot that twisted in her stomach, rag-like. "I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. McClintock wrote me about you; but all I needed was the sight of your face as it was a moment gone.
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