He saw now that it was
merely a boy. She would look up, shake her head, and then
go back to her reading or crewelwork. I feel that I shall stifle unless I can do
something—and do something soon. E. 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. "Do better in future. “This has almost killed your father. Well, I was all for dragging in Bow Street
there and then, and getting the pair of those fraudsters thrown in gaol.
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