She doubted how she stood toward him and what the restrained gleam of his face might signify. ‘Champion?’ ‘The lad you saw following her. His figure was uncommonly slim even for his age, which could not be more than thirteen; and the looseness of his garb made him appear thinner than he was in reality. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’ ‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. This hand consigned him to destruction, but another was stretched forth to save him. Leave the room! leave the house, Sir! and enter it again at your peril. But in his presence a wall of diffidence and timidity encompassed her. She winked at him as he shut the door. 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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