A thin mist lay on the river, giving the few craft moving about in it a ghostly look. I have scarcely recovered from the shock of hearing of your condemnation, when I behold you free!" "Not two hours since," rejoined Jack, "I was chained down in the Condemned Hold in Newgate. " "That I'll engage not to do. 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. “Think how dumb we find ourselves and stifled! I know we seem to have a sort of freedom.
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