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. "I am one. He is Jacques. Her mother had died when she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively, one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of her, and so she had made what she could of her father. ‘You’re speaking the truth. With the immediate necessities in train, Melusine fell to brooding on her situation, which she found insupportable. Go on and tell me. “You are mine, Annabel, and nothing shall ever make me give you up. He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint, and now it was again the afternoon. Majorities, right or wrong, dare not revolt. "Enough's as good as a feast. Yet she took with her an uneasy consciousness that in this affair might lie the germs of future trouble. ‘Don’t concern yourself,’ Gerald said calmly. But you,” he continued, moving imperceptibility a little nearer to her, “you are mine.
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