. ‘Well, this maid,’ went on Kimble eagerly, ‘and me, we gets to talking, see,
and that’s how I knew he were off to this party. 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. Only your horror of a
grandfather insisted on coming with me, so I had to wait for him to be ready and
travel at his pace. The houses loomed progressively larger as one
strode up the block, growing from ranch to two-story,
from squat 1950's modern to stately 1890's palace. She received into
her slack grasp the pistol and dagger, only half aware of taking them. "I don't see why I should be obliged to pay for doing
my duty. Offer to return
it to each in private. He might be unfortunate, but
he would scarcely be a fool. Pull over there. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said.
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