She rose from her chair, and began walking up and down the room restlessly. So while he talked to this girl of work and freedom, his slightly protuberant eyes were noting the gracious balance of her limbs and body across the gate, the fine lines of her chin and neck. 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. ” The lights were lowered, and an attentive waiter hovered round Anna’s cloak. “MY DEAR GIRL,— “I am so sorry if we made asses of ourselves to-night. If he had imagined Melusine would be hampered by her petticoats, he was disappointed. Believe me, the bitterness of it has almost departed, crushed out of me together with much of the weariness and sorrow I brought with me here by the nameless glory of these lonely months. , and get some other man to live on as soon as possible. It was then for the first time she remembered that she had said nothing to her sister of the man in the hospital. ” “You should try out for the town orchestra.
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