‘That is what she wants, is it?’ ‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. Her spirit awoke in dismay to an affection in ruins, to the immense undignified disaster that had come to them. Wood having disposed of the brandy, and pronounced himself much better, hurried close to the fire-side, and informed his friend in a few words of the inhospitable treatment he had experienced from the gentlemen of the Mint; whereupon Mr. Stanley, having pretended to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly. When he could find words, he tried by the most urgent solicitations to prevail upon the constable to let him out. She had agonized over it for weeks. But there was something else; and in his befogged mental state the comparison eluded him. That shining slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from life and left it light and fire.
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