Not once during the ceremony did the two look at each other, but riveted their gaze upon the lips of the man who was forging the bands: gazed intensively, as if they feared the world might vanish before the last word of the ceremony was spoken. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. I had rather have trouble and hardship like that than be taken care of by others. But calmer thoughts quickly succeeded. I was given no sword and shield and forced into the ring with a dozen armored warriors with full weaponry. ‘Do not think—’ he panted, ‘that I am finished—with you, mademoiselle. “All’s well that ends well,” he said; “and the less one says about things the better. The clergyman, meanwhile, proceeded with the service, while the coffin was deposited at the brink of the grave. “Do you remember the mountains? Do you remember how we loved one another? How intensely we loved one another! Do you remember the light on things and the glory of things? I’m greedy, I’m greedy! I want children like the mountains and life like the sky. That night a grave was dug in Willesden churchyard, next to that in which Mrs. Take him away," he added, striding up to Charcam. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Annabel had been here then.
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