But the free arm of the stranger hit him a flail-like blow on the chest and sent him sprawling into the yielding sand. There was a little murmur of consternation from the waiting crowd, and the florid young woman showed signs of temper, to which Mr. Blue haze had settled beyond the black silhouettes of trees, graduating to the deep violet that began the night sky. "You repeated the word 'Fool' over and over. He gave her silence in return. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. 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. "Impossible!" exclaimed the widow, wildly. Apparently he had projected beyond his table some hypnotic thought, for it had held him all through the dining hour. You shall have your reward. "We may trust him," he added in a whisper; "he is a staunch friend of the good cause. ’ ‘Back?’ Melusine put a hand to her aching temple. ‘No! Let me alone!’ ‘It is not safe!’ ‘That is entirely my affair, and not your affair in the least,’ she told him haughtily. Taking the opposite course from that which he had hitherto pursued when it has been necessary to attend him in his visits to the lower part of his premises, he struck into a narrow passage on the right, which he tracked till he came to a small door, like the approach to a vault.
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