I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a
chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's
'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. Tight. The
third time she escaped she reached the inconsequent barricade of the overturned
table. It ceased to be the symbol of liberty and a remote and
quite abstracted person, and became suddenly and very disagreeably the token of
a large and portentous body visible and tangible. The sound of her flying feet brought Gerald leaping for the door. The Morning Post was hungry for governesses and nursery governesses,
but held out no other hopes; the Daily Telegraph that morning seemed eager only
for skirt hands. ”
“I promise,” he answered heartily. Jack instandly extinguished the light, and called to his comrade to come after
him. She remained for a few moments standing as though
listening to his retreating footsteps. Sheppard, which she gratefully declined. 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. He knocked on the
doorframe. Lee-o-no-ra.
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