“But I don’t see,” said Ann Veronica, “just how it fits the present situation. It was
astonishing how seldom it was that his instincts betrayed him. 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. That a longing of hers should be realized in this strange fashion was
difficult to believe: it vaguely suggested something of a trap. He is extremely
old—forty at least—and he has a belly excessively fat. Le Mercier and
Stowe of St. So he decided to stay. The latter
specimen, of his workmanship was adorned with a little scarecrow figure,
intended to represent a housebreaking chimney-sweeper of the time, described in
Sheppard's own hand-writing, as 'Jack Hall a-hanging.
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