As you brew so must you drink. He had meant to be master of his fate that evening and it had escaped him altogether. One of his converted Kanakas dropped in one day. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Something that is born anew each time we meet, and pines when we are separated. Ah! but you can’t imagine what you are to me and what you mean to me! I suppose there is something mystical and wonderful about all women. Then a servant girl brought in a telegram. They had been informally introduced during floor hockey, when Katy had sent a puck flying into Lucy’s face. “I was frightened then,” she declared. ’ ‘The word of whom?’ came scoffingly from the pretty lips. 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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