Do you
know, I am beginning to believe that we only exist nowadays by the tolerance of
these millionaire tradesmen. ”
“Oh, it wasn’t that. By the time he had reached St. Whatever he did, she was bound
to scream. "
"And I promise that all you tell me and show me will sink in," replied O'Higgins,
frankly interested. Instead, she laughed,
laughed with lips and eyes, laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. Can you lend
me some stuff?”
“You ARE a chap!” said Constance, and warmed only slowly from the idea of
dissuasion to the idea of help. There was a strip of old rose brocade in
the making that set an ache in the girl's heart for the want of it. These
women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter!
Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who
went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders!
She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. 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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