” He was still conscious when they reached the hospital and his state was much more favourable. ” “You are at least aware,” he said, “that you have on several recent occasions acted in direct opposition to my wishes. Wild—" "I did," interrupted Jack; "and I never yet broke an engagement. . “Impossible to say,” he answered. Men had tried to kiss her— unshaven derelicts, some of them terrible—but she had always managed to escape. ” Two young men on their way down the room came suddenly to a standstill before Anna. 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. He was brooding over her, she could sense it, and the shadowy circles around his lovely dark eyes bespoke a terrible ongoing insomnia. ” “I am afraid I have not been very nice,” she said sadly. And like that gospel it meant something, something different from its phrases, something elusive, and yet something that in spite of the superficial incoherence of its phrasing, was largely essentially true.
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