Century Magazine/Volume 65/Issue 1/A Forsaken Temple

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A FORSAKEN TEMPLE
BY ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
Author of "The Rescue," "The Confounding of Camelia," "The Dull Miss Archinard," etc.

"IT is the emptiness, the loneliness, the lack of response and understanding," said Milly. "It is as if I looked always at a face that never smiled at me or spoke to me. Such a mistake as I have made, or as others have made for me, is irretrievable. An unhappy marriage makes ruins all about one; one must dwell in the midst of ruins thenceforth; one can't go away and leave them behind one, as one can other calamities in life."
Milly Quentyn and Mrs. Drent were alone this afternoon in the big country house where they had come really to know each other, and Milly, acting hostess for her absent cousin, had poured out Mrs. Brent's tea and then her own, leaving it untouched, however, while she spoke, her hands falling, clasped together, in her lap, her eyes fixed on vacancy. The contemplation of ruins for the last five years had made these eyes steady holders of a pensive resignation; they showed no tearful repinings, no fretful restlessness. They were clear eyes, large and luminous, and in looking at them, and at the wan, lovely li

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