The slight smile that played upon Winifred's lips seemed to say that she was not
quite so sure. 205
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SEBASTIAN TAKES A LOVER
Sebastian had brought the first one home around
1503. 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. On all hands Jack was cheered, and Jonathan
hooted. I saw the motor dashed to pieces against the wall, and I
saw him pitched on his head into the road. A
disagreeable young man, with red hair and a loose mouth, seated at the reporter’s
table, was only too manifestly sketching her. "
"You shall take my life first," rejoined Sheppard. She recalled that day of the typhoon
and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs. "
"I will yield it to no one but its mother," answered Wood. Almost at once she had comprehended that she was expected to
write down her name and address, which she did, in slanting cobwebby lettering,
perhaps a trifle laboriously. We two just love each other—the real, identical other—all the
time. You are marvelous!” Carolyn Diedermayer
exclaimed. ‘Leonardo again,’ he growled. "But it wants something here.
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