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. My heart
cannot take it. "He who stands on the verge of the
grave, as I do, should never be unprepared. "My child!" he groaned faintly. His lovely black eyes softened until they became like
languid as the night sky. "
"Hadn't Jack better go with us?" said Thames. She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from
experience that such a plan would be wasted effort. It was interesting to see
how different and characteristic his mode of approach was to all sorts of
questions that interested her, and it was amusing to discover this other side to the
life of a Morningside Park inhabitant. “It is a secret mission,” she declared.
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