. 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 odd creak was not to be avoided in an old house such as this. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. Melusine’s eyes blazed into his. " "Do not speak of it," rejoined Thames, with a look of horror. He was disquieted. He never finished his sentence. “What’s wrong?” He asked as she shifted awkwardly. "Tell me that, and I will believe you.
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