At this juncture, a cry was raised by a servant from below, that the robbers were flying through the garden. The man looked as though he would have liked to deny it, but could not. Soon, they fattened up, their cheeks rosy and their hair shining. So, forthwith, without any preliminaries beyond introductions, he began the ceremony; and shortly Ruth Enschede became Ruth Spurlock, for better or for worse. She wondered why he was so distinctive, so unlike other men, and it never occurred to her for some time that this might be because she was falling in love with 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. She also knew that he was the type who would not make a single physical overture until she pushed the correct buttons. Suddenly Ah Cum laughed aloud. Wild horses wouldn’t drag it out of me, even I knew anything, which I don’t. Cheveney was looking after her, I think, then. She had, it was true, accepted doubtfully the pen he had offered. The gentlemen are so particular now, and a good thing too, I say. But this is all different. Manning, with an air of emerging from an elaborate demonstration, “and so each of us must, under existing conditions, being chivalrous indeed to all women, choose for himself his own particular and worshipful queen.
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