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Part 11
They sat for a time without speaking a word, in an enormous shining globe of
mutual satisfaction. There was more shouting. 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. Over here, there was
generally some unusual twist to a case. I know you
are in Jonathan Wild's power, for I saw him near you in the church; and if ever
the enemy of mankind was permitted to take human form, I beheld him then. He wore a silk hat a little tilted, and a morning coat buttoned round
a tight, contained figure; and a white slip gave a finish to his costume and
endorsed the quiet distinction of his tie. She would be
in the library, her favorite place, or on the bench by the
colored glass window with her embroidery. The thing is done. "I hope not. "Thames, this is no forgery. The name of this damsel was Edgeworth Bess; and, as her
fascinations will not, perhaps, be found to be without some influence upon the
future fortunes of her boyish admirer, we have thought it worth while to be thus
particular in describing them.
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