”
“Never,” he exclaimed vehemently. ’
“Crude, I admit. ”
“He certainly did not follow you out,” Brendon answered. He was going to settle I
forget how many millions upon me, and I think that I was dazzled. 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. I have suffered too much from your
treachery. The entire
city seemed to exist for beauty and art alone. There were moments when Ann Veronica
rather more than suspected the chief speakers to be, as school-boys say, showing
off at her. Fifteen from forty is twenty-five. I said, ‘It is no use your telling me about this walk and pretend I’ve been
told about the ball, because you haven’t.
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