An electric light flashed out from the wall. Sheila, a
normally sound sleeper, woke one night to find both her
husband and her foster daughter had snuck from their
beds, and this infuriated her. 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 looked fiercely
and inquiringly from one to the other of his companions; but, though both of
them were excessively frightened, neither appeared guilty. . “I am perfectly certain that that
man meant to be rude to me. "
"He has done too much already," answered the widow. No
sooner had Trenchard crossed the threshold than a fierce barking was heard at
the farther extremity of the passage, and, the next moment, a couple of mastiffs
of the largest size rushed furiously towards him. Her hair was held back in a filigreed barrette. “How have you been, my dear? Up to no good, I
see. Sebastian looked up and stood.
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