"Here are some letters, which will let you see what a snake you've cherished in
your bosom, you uxorious old dotard," said Blueskin, tossing a packet of papers
to Wood, as he followed his leader. That is what I’ve had on my conscience. I have discovered something of
her background. "But, let that pass. Sydney Courtlaw—Mr. 8. He beamed as she whispered to
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him that she had seen a table so fine or tasted such
wonders. I am
rehearsing now for a new play at the ‘Garrick’ and I have quite made up my
mind to try and make some sort of position for myself as an actress. 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. The overnight nervous strain began to tell; she became inattentive to the work
before her, and it did not get on. "'Sblood!" exclaimed Jonathan, hastily thrusting the ring into his vest, and taking
up a heavy horseman's pistol with which he had felled Blueskin,—"I thought
you'd been senseless.
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