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Chapter xxx. The Prospect Darkens.
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Three days after my mother and I had established ourselves at Torquay, I received Mrs. Van Brandt’s answer to my letter. After the opening sentences (informing me that Van Brandt had been set at liberty, under circumstances painfully suggestive to the writer of some unacknowledged sacrifice on my part), the letter proceeded in these terms:
“The new employment which Mr. Van Brandt is to undertake secures to us the comforts, if not the luxuries, of life. For the first time since my troubles began, I have the prospect2 before me of a peaceful existence, among a foreign people from whom all that is false in my position may be concealed3 — not for my sake, but for the sake of my child. To more than this, to the happiness which some women enjoy, I must not, I dare not, aspire4.
“We leave England for the Continent early tomorrow morning. Shall I tell you in what part of Europe my new residence is to be?
“No! You might write to me again; and I might write back. The one poor return I can make to the good angel of my life is to help him to forget me. What right have I to cling to my usurped5 place in your regard? The time will come when you will give your heart to a woman who is worthier6 of it than I am. Let me drop out of your life — except as an occasional remembrance, when you sometimes think of the days that have gone forever.
“I shall not be without some consolation7 on my side, when I too look back at the past. I have been a better woman since I met with you. Live as long as I may, I shall always remember that.
“Yes! The influence that you have had over me has been from first to last an influence for good. Allowing that I have done wrong (in my position) to love you, and, worse even than that, to own it, still the love has been innocent, and the effort to control it has been an honest effort at least. But, apart from this, my heart tells me that I am the better for the sympathy which has united us. I may confess to you what I have never yet acknowledged — now that we are so widely parted, and so little likely to meet again — whenever I have given myself up unrestrainedly to my own better impulses, they have always seemed to lead me to you. Whenever my mind has been most truly at peace, and I have been able to pray with a pure and a
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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