’ Shock spread across her lovely features. But they found him on the veranda when they returned from McClintock's that evening. " "I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came here. Immeasurable disgust possessed her. And I think I must pursue my acquaintance with the fulsome Madame Valade. On searching the coat, he found, amongst other matters, a mask, a key, and a pocket-book. Stanley in her illness that her husband consented to receive Mr. It was hard to resist. ” “It cannot be!” “It is in the grimoires. Oh, yes; of Ruth herself he knew much; but the more he mulled over what he knew, the deeper grew his chagrin. Also she remembered very vividly the smell of orange blossom, and Alice, drooping and spiritless, mumbling responses, facing Doctor Ralph, while the Rev. Stay! I'll go myself. An uncomfortable silence followed. 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.
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