The two aunts of these young ladies lived for many years in the dower house upon my estate in Hampshire. The night was clear and moonlit, dazzling with even light blue shadows that shone into manicured lawns and pristine gardens. Only in the sunshine; they would not answer my whistle on cloudy days. It presented a cleanshaven face with a large Corinthian nose, hair tremendously waving off the forehead and more chin and neck than is good for a man. Too intent on her search, and convinced besides that she was quite alone, she had been an easy prey. Stanley as they drew alongside, to account for his own ruffled and heated expression. “I came directly I was disengaged,” Anna answered. “I know. ’ ‘Well, but he was a deserter, you see. They were looking for a guide. "But if he had not fired that shot, he might have saved Thames, and possessed himself of papers which would have established his birth, and his right to the estates of the Trenchard family. " "Lord!—think of having sharks for neighbours? Every morning I'll take a dip into the lagoon. " "Here is the sum you bargained for," rejoined Trenchard, flinging a pocket-book on the table; "count it. 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. The one fault, indeed, of this school of fiction for him was that it had rather a light way with parental rights.
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