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He stopped and said earnestly: “It is the chief thing in life, and everything else
goes down before it. Courtlaw might have been able to give
me an idea where to stop. As
he understood it, folks saw in two or three days all there was to see of Canton. 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 thought every one had heard about it. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender
courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having
mistaken gratitude for love. “I am sure she will be very happy indeed with Doctor Ralph.
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