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“No, it’s very good. You must know, Sir, when he was a lad, the day after he
broke into his master's house in Wych Street, he picked a gentleman's pocket in
our church, during sarvice time,—that he did, the heathen. He entered
it; crossed the room, in which there was only a small truckle-bed, over which he
stumbled; opened another door and gained the stair-head. . "That's well," replied Wild, entering the house, and fastening the door. “But if some one else asked your advice? If some one else said, ‘Here is my
teacher, a jaded married man on the verge of middle age, and he and I have a
violent passion for one another. EPOCH THE SECOND. 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. Return to him, I say—"
"I can't," replied Jack, doggedly. I believe I am getting impudent. I don’t. ”
Chapter III
ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer
which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the
following evening. On the north stood the battlements of one of the towers of the gate.
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