"Do you not know me, father?" said the young man, advancing towards him, and
warmly grasping his hand. "
The worthy carpenter was now far more angry with himself than he had
previously been with Mrs. "
"Aye!" was McClintock's inaudible affirmative. He wanted to know what the
joke against him was—if any. 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. Part 6
Most of the things that he had planned they did. Vexation at his folly in suffering
himself to be thus entrapped kept Wood for a short time silent. The girl in the forward chair raised herself a little, the better to see the gorgeous
blue palanquin of the dimly visible bride. ’
Madame Valade reseated herself, and Gerald set himself to flatter her into
relaxation again. The flowers and turf, a wild
strawberry, a rare butterfly, and suchlike little intimate things had become more
interesting than mountains. But not so much a pig as that man. And then her pace slackened. "
"Awake!—to be sure I am, my flash cove," replied Sheppard; "I'm down as a
hammer. "
The doctor hesitated, puffing his tobacco hastily. She had a feeling at his departure as of an immense cavity, of something
enormously gone; she could not tell whether it was infinite regret or infinite
relief.
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