’ ‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. Still, it was rather terrible to suspect that one had fallen from grace, but nevertheless the thing was possible. Would you mind drawing them back?” Ennison sprang up, but he never reached the curtains. Not a breath was drawn. But the relief from the strain of her immediate necessities was immense. 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. "I should as soon have expected the bones of Tom Sheppard to reunite themselves and walk out of that case, as Thames Darrell to return. Something draws everybody. To use it as a passport to card-tables and gin-bottles! McClintock wasn't having any guests; at any rate, he had not mentioned the fact. He was even a little jealous of Sebastian.
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