“The city of Athens was more glorious then any city 197 ever before it and no city has ever rivaled it since. 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. "But, I half suspect, of your father. At Boulogne they took train to Basle; next morning they breakfasted together in the buffet of that station, and thence they caught the Interlaken express, and so went by way of Spies to Frutigen. It was not only Leonardo who had instilled in her this distrust of men. ‘What do you think?’ ‘What do I think?’ repeated Captain Roding. Yet he’s been here for six years, and he’s as much a fixture as that sham mahogany sideboard. Thieves and pickpockets are his constant companions. The cage at Willesden was, and is—for it is still standing—a small round building about eight feet high, with a pointed tiled roof, to which a number of boards, inscribed with the names of the parish officers, and charged with a multitude of admonitory notices to vagrants and other disorderly persons, are attached. Was it VERY horrible? I tried to get into the police-court, but the crowd was ever so much too big, push as I would.
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