"
"Oh, do not be funereal!" she replied. "I knew that we were not to drown
at the Devil's Slide. The drama is not ended yet, and the chief actors
cannot go until 'the curtain.'--Though I am afraid that is not quite
orthodox, is it, Mr. Roscoe?"
Roscoe looked at her gravely. "It may not be orthodox as it is said, but
it is orthodox, I fancy, if we exchange God for fate, and Providence for
chance. . . . Good-night."
He said this wearily. She looked up at him with an ironical look, then
held out her hand, and quickly bade him good-night. Partings all round
were made, and, after some injunctions to Mrs. Falchion and Justine Caron
from myself as to preventives against illness, the rest of us started for
Sunburst.
As we went, I could not help but contrast Ruth and Amy Devlin, these two
gentle yet strong mountain girls, with the woman we had left. Their lives
were far from that dolorous tide which, sweeping through a selfish world,
leaves behind it the stain of corroding passions; of cruelties,
ingratitude, hate, and catastrophe. We are all ambitious, in one way or
another. We climb mountains over scoria that frays and lava that burns.
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