It was evident the lady’s servant knew his mistress, for he had come equipped with a tray upon which reposed a decanter and two glasses. They were wed in Florence, in the grandest cathedral she had ever seen, the Santa Maria del Fiore. Fast asleep, he is. ‘The sisters here will not save you. 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. It occasionally troubled the major that Hilary’s staunch loyalty had led him into hair-raising exploits at Gerald’s side, for he was perfectly aware that Hilary would not have dreamed of deserting him. ’ ‘Eh bien? And so?’ ‘He says as how he’s going to take you with him to France with his new wife. A neighbor stopped by as the day wore on, causing her to duck and cower as he rang the doorbell over and over. ’ Gerald sighed. —'We'll do it,' said they, filling their glasses, and looking as fierce as King George's grenadier guards; 'here's your health, Mint. He had been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton, of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest. She caught at the idea.
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