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. Oh, the
scent of the flowers that day, the delicious quiet, the swallows that dived before
us in the river. How did you like Tristan?”
Ann Veronica paused the fraction of a second before her reply came. This obstacle, which appeared to preclude the possibility of
egress in that quarter, was speedily got rid of. His chest heaved violently, and big tears coursed
rapidly down his cheeks. Another car followed, a rusty
Cadillac sedan full of kids. Every
house-top, every window, every wall, every projection, had its occupants. Many’s the young ’un I’ve
seen get hisself into just such a knuckleheaded mess all on account of a pretty
wench. "
"Well, villain!" replied Thames, "I know not the motive of your visit. Sheppard mysteriously, "old Van told me one
thing which has come true already.
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