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. Steeples toppled, and towers reeled beneath its fury. She tried not to notice how much attention Martin Chen had been paying her, but he had been bold enough to speak to her the other day. This was the first young man who had drawn from her something more than speculative interest. You never can go back. But she no longer felt Jacomo’s age, even if she looked it. Sister’s got married to that bounder Ferringhall. One’s got to be a better man than one’s father, or what is the good of successive generations? Life is rebellion, or nothing. ” He met her questioning eye, and repeated, “Oh! it IS a success. Curses light on the horse!" he added, seizing the bridle of his steed, who continued snorting and shivering, as if still under the influence of some unaccountable alarm; "what can ail him?" "I know what ails him, your honour," rejoined the groom, riding up as he spoke; "he's seen somethin' not o' this world. But don't let my name frighten you.
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