Her lips parted, but no words came. ’ Gerald dropped down to join her just as her hand came up, clutching the handle. He, however, made no remark at the time, but instantly prepared to set out. 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. Marina doted over her pregnant daughter, adorned in fine brocades, reassuring her that it was certain to be a either a baby boy or a girl of such great beauty she would eclipse them both. “I am going through the other rooms. . People running, screaming, hiding. ’ Gerald turned and came back to her. The same look she had often seen in the eyes of the drunken beachcombers her father had brought home, and it had not filled her with horror. I wanted something alive. “I believe you are quite right so far as regards the present, at any rate,” someone remarked, from the depths of an easy chair.
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