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She whirled around by instinct, frightening the boy
who she had borrowed the pencil from. "When you are stronger we'll go up to the cutwater and watch them from there. ’
‘In that case, I ought to warn you that my friend, Captain Hilary Roding, who
is even less sympathique than myself, you remember, will undoubtedly arrest
you for murder. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’
one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and
Drummond and his lot were with us. Her hands wove
through his black hair, luxuriating in its thickness. 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.
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