“After all, how easy the descent is, even for the
greatest of us. ”
“Yes. "
"Aw light!"
The two old friends held each other off at arms' length for inspection; this
proving satisfactory, they began to prod and pummel one another affectionately. If it were but
the question of his reason for marrying her, the solution would have been simple. “Was that before or after you became a vampire?”
Michelle questioned her casually, as if it were an
interview. The stench was
cheese-like and unbearable and Lucy dry-heaved. 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. ’ He
turned to the lodgekeeper behind him, whose shocked fear had given place to a
direful frown. He disappeared
into its thick doors like a magician’s rabbit. Manning had shown on previous occasions that he found Ann Veronica
interesting and that he wished to interest her.
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