He looked up to see an ancient coach making its ponderous way down the
street. "
The shock of hearing this title pronounced was equally distributed between Ruth
and her husband; but it aroused two absolutely different emotions. No one would ever know what happened to him. “Poor old daddy! I wonder if he’ll spend much on the fatted calf?. Free, there is
nothing left to her but the canal. Leonardo had taught her pretty well everything
she could have need to know, when they had talked long at his bedside. I'm a
graybeard, an old bachelor; so I am accorded certain privileges. "
"Anything else, Sir?"
"No:—stay! you'd better not bring up any silver forks or spoons. She possessed
what he affected to despise, but secretly worshipped—the innate charm of
breeding. 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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