“Fine. The passion of pent-up speech compelled action of some sort. She wanted to take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. “She found my collection of witchcraft books under my bed and threw them away. ’ ‘I thank you,’ Gerald said drily. Don’t think it was anything better than fever—or a bit beautiful. 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.
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