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. “Nothing. Was that it? Had she
clothed this unhappy young man with glamour? Or was it because he was so
alone? She could not get through the husks to the kernel of what really actuated
her. You'll find the benefit of it by and by. You complain of a condition, but you leave the correction to someone
else. ‘I have only borrowed
it. But on this matter my mind is quite made up. Well, let's beat it to the hotel. Part 7
“And what are you doing here, young lady,” he said, looking up at her face,
“wandering alone so far from home?”
“I like long walks,” said Ann Veronica, looking down on him. “Poor little Miniver! What can she be but what she is?. The next moment he was by her side. The trio of girls approached the newly laid cement
curb, where throngs of young girls in pink lip-gloss
fanned and preened like peacocks as rich boys circled
round, revving the engines of their father's red cars.
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