"What did you ring for, Sir?" she asked, eyeing the group with astonishment. "
"What!" she exclaimed, staring eagerly in his face. I'll speak to McClintock to-night and see if he won't take us
for a junket on The Tigress. “What have you done to yourself?” he muttered. "A little, Sir," replied the executioner, with a grim smile. After occupying himself thus for the best part of an hour, he thought Jack must
have given him the slip. 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. She hadn't meant to ask anything for herself. Where was this
kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. She felt him as something solid and strong and trustworthy beyond
measure. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our
importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that
we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a
dream. He would know the
truth then once and for all.
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