’ ‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck. “I’ll run, too,” she volunteered. 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. "Here's a door," remarked Ireton, when he got to that nearest the leads, "which I could have sworn would have resisted anything. He used to call it his fire-escape—ha! ha! I've often used the ladder for my own convenience, but I never expected to turn it to such good account. They were properly brought up, and sat still and straight, and took the luck fate brought them as gentlewomen should. What do you think of the old tub?" "She's wonderful!" cried Ruth. "Is she returned!" "Y—e—s, Sir Rowland," stammered Charcam. ’ Abruptly, the niggling doubt that had been plaguing Lord Charvill came sweeping to the surface.
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