"If you loiter in this way, old Wood will catch us. "Jonathan Wild and Blueskin have got him into their hands," continued Mrs. Deuce take it! I was very near spelling my name with one P. He measured out the portion of another peg, the bottle wavering in his hand. ‘Étes-vous Francais?’ Her eyes, he noted, followed from himself to Hilary and back again, but she did not speak. After venting his wrath in the wildest manner, and uttering the most dreadful execrations, Jonathan retired to another part of the prison, where he passed the night in consultation with the governor, as to the best means of conveying the prisoner securely to Tyburn. 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. There are way-stations—even terminals. Perceiving he was about to take leave, Kneebone ventured to ask whom he had had the honour of addressing. His eyes were set too close together. There was a long silence between them.
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