“I rue the day I ever met you, Sebastianus. It is necessary. There were moments when she doubted whether the whole mass
of movements and societies and gatherings and talks was not simply one
coherent spectacle of failure protecting itself from abjection by the glamour of
its own assertions. At last she glanced at a little clock in the corner of the
room, and sprang to her feet. She always dawdled, so it was easy. 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. In spite of his care, he came in
contact with a man, who, endeavouring to grasp him, cried, in the voice of
Mendez, "Who goes dere? Shpeak! or I fire!"
No answer being returned, the Jew instantly discharged his pistol, and though the
shot did no damage, the flash discovered Sheppard. ’
‘Lucky indeed,’ answered Gerald, glancing at the pair again. Amidship there was also canvas, and like that over the wheel, drab and dirty. I could not hear his heart beat. ”
“I will see that he gets it immediately on his return,” the lady promised.
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