They
moved fast. “Do not force me to take you seriously,” she continued. She turned out the electric light and gained the hall. A young man
—almost a boy, slight, dark, and with his brother’s deep grey eyes—came across
the room to her. No good at all. She emerged
with a white face and wide-open eyes upon a little, red-lit landing. “The other too if it is within my
power. That suggested delicacy; and yet her young body was
strong and vital. “Everything will follow,” she said. The Magdalene. Mr. 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. ‘Then he went stark staring crazy, if you ask me.
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