He would condemn her to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. She wondered when her tormentors would simply lose interest now that Katy had been discovered and suspended. “Annabel,” she said slowly, “if I fight this thing out myself, can I trust you that it will not be a vain sacrifice? After what you have said it is useless for us to play with words. His stories had enchanted her, even if in some deep corner of her heart she guessed they were not entirely true. CHAPTER THE NINTH DISCORDS Part 1 One afternoon, soon after Ann Veronica’s great discovery, a telegram came into the laboratory for her. She delighted in frustrating him. ” “I am not afraid,” she answered. ’ ‘This is what you say of him? Me, I find he is growling all the time like a dog. I felt I MUST do something anyhow, and up I came just as soon as I could to see you. 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 was sick of herself, of her life, of everything but him; and for him all her masked and hidden being was crying out. “YOU wouldn’t like to be independent?” he asked, abruptly. You would rather live like the scum of the earth, in that little brown hovel you call a house, in bourgeois paradise.
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