I AM an abandoned female. ’
‘Forgive me, but if that is the case, I don’t quite see why you should run
away. ’
The couple on the sofa stared at her blankly. The little room was fragrant with flowers,
Anna herself bright, and with all the evidences of well being. It doesn’t seem to matter. She
had already realized that this instructress was hopelessly wrong and foggy—it is
the test of the good comparative anatomist—upon the skull. 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. Though a
few months younger than his companion Jack Sheppard, he was half a head
taller, and much more robustly formed. ‘It is all the fault of that lantern. “I don’t
know how to prove myself to you, John. "Confusion!" cried he; "there is another boat in our wake. “I suppose delusions are not
uncommon to patients in his condition.
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