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. She was quite the rage, in a small way, you know. "I don't know what I think," Wood answered sulkily; and he bent his eyes upon the water, as if he wished to avert his attention forcibly from the scene. ’ He took his seat next to her, waving the fulminating captain towards the tray. He was dressed with the utmost care, and he set his feet upon the broad walk as though the action were in some way a condescension. Yet she took with her an uneasy consciousness that in this affair might lie the germs of future trouble. She could almost smell her mother’s attar of white roses and lemon verbena with the memory of the story. Spurling, hastening to the rescue.
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