"He does," replied Kneebone, "and, what is more surprising, it seems to increase. Parbleu, but what grandfathers I have!’ It was stalemate, Gerald thought, irrepressible amusement leaping into his chest. 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. ‘Say then, Jacques, you have followed him?’ she demanded of the blackgarbed footman. ‘Gammon. ’ ‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his own pistol was not cocked. “I am dying to renew my acquaintance with London, Mrs.
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