“Anna! Thank God I have found you at last. Ramage,” said Ann Veronica, “I want to go—NOW!”
Part 5
But she did not get away just then. \"I’ve never been to any of Lincoln’s dances. “Where to?” he asked, as the hansom drove up. In response to an almost imperative gesture from the
nurse, Anna laid her hand upon his. " Quarter of an hour later O'Higgins stepped
off the gangplank. The signs of tears had all gone, but some subtle change seemed to have stolen
into her face. 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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