Listening attentively, he fancied he heard the breathing of some one near him, and moved cautiously in the opposite direction. ” He replied. 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. Presently the odour of burnt powder mingled agreeably with that of the incense. But in its stead—toward morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime, appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the poet and the novelist in him. " "Ship her back to her father"—sagely. Enschede halted. "Hear me, Sir Rowland!" he cried. “Lucy, this isn’t funny anymore. “I am exceedingly sorry,” he said. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. That for the men lay near the Lodge, with which it was connected by a dark passage. You fooled me this morning; but I overheard two old maids talking about you and the young man. Mr. ” “It’s rather jolly of you,” said Ann Veronica.
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