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. At last the panel swung back
into the library. I wouldn’t
recommend doing anything. "Don't look at it, I entreat," she cried. "
"Now for it!—life or death!" exclaimed Jack, assuming the gait of a female, and
stepping towards the door. “Kindly explain it to me. “Is Larry already in bed?” Cathy nodded yes. She did not understand the note of hostility to men that
ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and
eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. She loved for him to regale
her with the stories of his past, the days of ancient
Greece. There was little fighting spirit here. For hours
after she had not been sensible to life, only to exquisite echoes. "
Mechanically raising the potion to her lips, the poor creature swallowed it
without hesitation.
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