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. It is bad policy. The dress was her mother's, and she was wearing it to save a little extra money. But the Ramage affair needed clearing up, of course; it was a flaw upon that project. Rotten, and covered with a thick coat of dirt, the boards of the floor presented a very insecure footing; the bare walls were scored all over with grotesque designs, the chief of which represented the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar. Stunning and continuous, the din seemed almost to take away the power of hearing. They could not have called it a fatal motor accident if he had not been dead. “You will have some tea?” she asked. ‘Parbleu, the house, is it broken in the least? I do not think so. . The stench is everywhere. It was a mass of knick-knacks.
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