The Tigress went
prowling for nut, too. Again returning to the main road, he
passed through Clapton; and turning off on the left, arrived at the foot of
Stamford Hill. ‘Don’t tell
me you’ve found her!’
‘Ah, Gérard,’ uttered the girl in a gratified tone as Major Alderley walked
through into the light. Dare we look back upon the
darkened vista, and, in imagination retrace the path we have trod? With how
many vain hopes is it shaded! with how many good resolutions, never fulfilled,
is it paved! Where are the dreams of ambition in which, twelve years ago, we
indulged? Where are the aspirations that fired us—the passions that consumed us
then? Has our success in life been commensurate with our own desires—with the
anticipations formed of us by others? Or, are we not blighted in heart, as in
ambition? Has not the loved one been estranged by doubt, or snatched from us
by the cold hand of death? Is not the goal, towards which we pressed, further off
than ever—the prospect before us cheerless as the blank behind?—Enough of
this. On a
bench at the foot of the trees, with a pipe in his mouth, and a tankard by his side,
sat the worthy carpenter, looking the picture of good-heartedness and
benevolence. still a kid!” He said. ”
“It’s a very good image,” said Ann Veronica. "It is time you should
know whom you have to deal with. No doubt he has been drinking for days without eating
substantially, and his heart gave out.
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