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. It does not work, I still suffer madness. ”
There was a moment’s silence. Soon they came to treat Lucy almost as mother,
pulling hard at her brown curls and laughing delightedly
as they sprang back into their spiral shape. Life waits
for us. ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I
wish to become of these people. He looked at it with uplifted eyebrows, but made no remark. You disgust me. ’
‘Melusine,’ repeated the old lady. ‘She wants
me to marry her. She
had already killed more than she wanted to count, yet she
had counted them still.
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