. The child
has sprung into a youth; the youth has become a man; the man has already begun
to feel the advances of age. Promise me one thing before I leave you. ‘But I was not there. He kissed
her neck, moving down to her breasts, trying to consume
her with passion. It was, in
his opinion, the most astonishing letter he had ever read. And after that Alice became remoter than ever, and, after a time, ill. Besides, there's
something odd about the boy; for, though I questioned him pretty closely
concerning his business, he declined answering my questions, and said he could
only deliver his message to her ladyship. If ever I did meet a man I could
love, I should love him”—her voice dropped again—“platonically. Wood,—the person whom you may remember
adopted him,—at Dollis Hill, near Willesden; and it's a singular but fortunate
circumstance, so far as we are concerned, that Mrs. I don't know; I
really don't know," she found herself repeating. Ramage came for her at her lodgings, and she
met him graciously and kindly as a queen who knows she must needs give
sorrow to a faithful liege. I wonder if you will mind very much when I tell you they were
suggested by you. 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.
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