There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ‘Comment? What do you say?’ Gerald looked down into her face, and found himself touched by the uncertainty he saw there. One is always familiar with the business of one’s neighbours. "What about it?" "Enschede. He put down his hat and umbrella, rested his hands on his hips, and regarded Ann Veronica firmly. Well-balanced, sane, wasn’t I? You never heard anyone call me a madman? I’m pretty near being one now, and it’s her fault. Things were thrown here and there, to be taken up, or again cast aside, as the whim arose; while the broken-backed chairs and crazy table bore the marks of many a conflict. " "So am I. "I suspect our friend has thought better of it, and won't come," he remarked. We shall have a reg'lar squall afore we gets across. I’ve—dreads. I made Hainault’s acquaintance, stood him drinks, lent him money. ” Lucy made fast friends with Jane Lenihan that day. 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. But Jack and his companion were already gone.
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