’
‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. "
"Wood's daughter, I suppose?" observed the other. Anna did not pause, but she looked over her shoulder with slightly lifted
eyebrows. But that was all over. It was the
crowned queen of mountains in her robes of shining white. They mean everything that women can mean—except
submission. 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. Go easy. Jack, who had formerly been in the custody of both these gentlemen,
gave them a very cordial welcome; apologized for the sorry room he was
compelled to receive them in; and when they took leave, insisted on treating
them to a double bowl of punch, which they were now discussing with the upper
jailer, Mr. Very well, I give up. “I should like you to come here,” she said. He embraced her,
kissing her cheek, then her neck.
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