16/22 In the moment of her loss Juanna learned for the first time what she had gained. She had played and lost, and she could never throw those dice again; it was begun and finished. A little more experience of the world might have taught her differently. But she had no experience, and in such novels as she had read the hero seldom varied in the pursuit of his first love, or turned to look upon _another_. Ah! if all heroes and heroines acted up to this golden rule, what an uncommonly dull world it would be! Juanna gathered her energies, and spoke in a low steady voice. |