Chapter XXVIII THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE” There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. “And think, think”—her voice sank —“of the horrible coarseness!” “What coarseness?” said Ann Veronica. She fell into another depression, refusing to touch Sebastian or call him husband when he demanded it. “No, she just worries that I’ll go Satanic and start chomping the heads off of bats and mice or something. Even if you were sick in the mind and did not understand what you were doing, it's a mighty cruel thing you have done. I suppose you will think me very unsisterly and cold-hearted, but there are circumstances in connexion with my sister’s latest exploit which are intensely irritating both to my husband and to myself. 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. 1. ‘I do not steal,’ declared the lady hotly. You were only one room removed from the library, see. Good-bye, aunt. But, not daring to confess his want of comprehension, he made a profound reverence, and retired. He jumped back, cursing. " There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the inclination to confess. He had assumed that her leaving home was the point at issue, that everything turned on that, and that the sole alternative was obedience, and she had fallen in with that assumption until rebellion seemed a sacred principle.
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