But there were two places of punishment which merit some notice from their peculiarity. Beneath the serene unconcern of Ann Veronica’s face was a boiling tumult. She thought that women were not made for the struggle and turmoil of life— their place was the little world, the home; that their power lay not in votes but in influence over men and in making the minds of their children fine and splendid. These interests her world promptly, through the agency of schoolmistresses, older school-mates, her aunt, and a number of other responsible and authoritative people, assured her she must on no account think about. She practiced swaddling on a doll, pretending to pat the head of her imaginary infant boy. He had buckled on his hanger, and had two brace of pistols in his belt, as well as others in this holsters. 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. . Anna, why will you persist in this single-handed combat with life?” “Don’t!” she cried. ’ Gerald looked round. "Yes; I speak English. Gerald’s temper flared. I have only one question to ask you. For all the enervating heat, he applied himself vigorously to his tasks. She rested for a half hour in heaven on earth, feeling herself drift in and out of sleep.
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