" "'Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days'," said Wood, reading aloud another passage. Perhaps the sunken cheeks and the protruding cheekbones gave her this impression. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her sister’s note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. The slack cloth of her habit caught on a curlicue in the carved back of the pew in front, pulling her suddenly about. ’ ‘It will be worth the pain, you will see. Don't be afraid, man,—off with it. 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. Well, my dear, it is time you stopped wallowing in your sorrows like a common wretch. A shy virgin bride would not press her thigh sinuously against his, nor consent indeed to this clandestine little comedy he had been playing. Ha! ha! What have I left but despair and madness? Promise me one thing, Mr.
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