The room in which this interview took place had a sordid and miserable look. He started toward the dog with the idea of ejecting him, but Ruth intervened. No tricks would serve. Fortunately, I've secured the proof of my birth. " There was a pause. " "If he could stand on two feet, I'd break every bone in his worthless body!" McClintock said soothingly: "But that wouldn't nullify the marriage, old boy. " There was a momentary and terrible silence, broken only by a few feeble groans. “They’d better not,” said Hetty. She laughed a little contemptuously. " CHAPTER XIX. ” Anna had reached the house where she lodged, but she hesitated on the doorstep. It might be dangerous to thwart him. 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. ‘To what do you go, mademoiselle? The life of a nun in a convent, in a country where nuns are unwelcome. But I vowed that Ruth should never suffer the way I did—and do.
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