“I have had a trying evening and I need rest. It was an odd room, used principally for the reception of guests and visiting dignitaries, packed from end to end with ill-assorted sofas and padded chairs. But I mean to have them. 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. ‘Pen and paper, do you have them?’ ‘Danged if I have,’ came the truculent response. “One is always playing the surgeon, one kills always the thing one loves best. “You must answer me, Annabel,” she continued. While this was effected, intelligence was brought that a formidable mob was pouring down Field Lane, the end of which was barricaded. All the turnkeys rose to salute the thief-taker, whose habitually-sullen countenance looked gloomier than usual. ” Anna looked at her steadily.
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