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not come for me, to find me and bring me home. ”
“You’d like to do that?”
“Exactly. Somewhere in the world there was a book clerk with a discerning
mind; for he had given her the best he had. She spoke with fluent enthusiasm. 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. "Marry, come up! Mightn't he just as reasonably
complain of your being a Hanoverian and a Presbyterian? It's all matter of
opinion. . Jonathan Wild!" he added, in a loud voice, "I
command you to release your prisoner.
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