Chapter 76: LXXV

LXXV Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l’ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents, causent l’inconstance. Pascal Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed from the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors were paid. But she was not joyous: her married life had fulfilled none of her hopes, and had been quite spoiled for her imagination. In this brief interval of calm, Lydgate, remembering that he had often been s…