" The doctor did not reply to this rather ambiguous statement, but pushed back his chair and signed to McClintock to follow. The release was so great that she felt tears spring from her eyes. 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. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. Ed. Gerald would not marry her even with a dowry. I’m minded to take a whip and beat some sense into you. ‘Never would he have gone to England. He did not speak for a moment. ” “The world has no sense of what is due to youth and courage. Sheppard, faintly. He buys his own clothes, chooses his own company, makes his own way of living. Do so; and I am yours as heretofore.
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