“Mary Lucia. 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. For in life there is but one hour: an epic or an idyll: all other hours lead up to and down from it. The misty caravans of which she had dreamed were become actualities. ‘Believe it or not, I do it for pleasure. ’ She set down her glass with a snap. ’ ‘I beg your pardon?’ said Miss Froxfield frostily. —What do you know of Thames?— Where is he?" "Don't agitate yourself, dearest girl," rejoined the woollen-draper; "or I shall never be able to commence my relation. Still, she knew instinctively that all of Sidney Carton's life had not been put upon the printed page. " "I declare I don't know what to do," said Wood, burned by conflicting emotions. The young rascal had learnt from some of the women-servants that Lady Trafford was from home, and was in the very act of making off when I got down stairs. "You didn't spend it?" "I never intended to spend it—any more than I really intended to steal it. Does HE know I keep you?. "Dreamed!" echoed the knight, with a ghastly smile.
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