He seemed wholly insensible to the rain, though it presently descended in torrents, and continued his search as ardently as before. Gosse! Dieu du ciel, but how did he get into the convent? She had perforce to obey his command, for speech was impossible. " "Who wouldn't be lively after thirty years' sleep? Did you hear her explain about beachcombers? And yet she looks at one with the straightest glance I ever saw. By the side of her plate was a small key. That really settles about that. He knew that tragedy was as blind as justice, that it struck the child and the grown-up impartially. 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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