” “I thought I explained—” “Come home!” Ann Veronica shrugged her shoulders. “She has lost something,” he declared, “something which brought the men in crowds around the stage at the ‘Ambassador’s. 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. '" "'This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea. But that still left the forty pounds!. " "That's well. ‘Gabbling and muttering in a foreign tongue, that’s what I heard, sir,’ had declared the gap-toothed ancient, when he told them of the initial foray he had made, sneaking around the house in the dark. ” “It is,” he replied, “the one humiliation of my life. "Hell's curses!" roared Jonathan. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. I'm ready to bear it all. It contains a thousand pounds; and, if all other schemes fail, I'll engage to free him on the way to Tyburn. He brought another small loaf, and a can with which he replenished the pitcher, recommending Jack to be careful, as he would get nothing further till morning.
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