" "My father!" exclaimed Thames, in the utmost astonishment; "let me see it!" "Here it is," returned Jack, producing a small picture in a case set with brilliants. ‘Don’t let us quarrel over your Leonardo,’ he said, summoning a faint smile. He leaned towards her as though anxious to see more of her face than that faint delicate profile gleaming like marble in the uncertain light. I have been very foolish, but it is over. ***** Spurlock possessed that extraordinary condition of the mind which is called New England conscience. But though the breach was large enough to admit him below, he could not squeeze his bulky person through the aperture into the Red Room. You are restless, aggressive, critical with all the crude unthinking criticism of youth. Lord, I am sixty. 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. Jonathan's wicked threat is fulfilled at last.
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